I've had a bit of a problem lately calling an overseas bank I have an account with to enact some business related to paying tax. Fortunately the call is not an urgent one, though sadly necessary, so there's plenty of time in which to resolve the situation - so hardly a real 'problem' at all. In fact, it's got me thinking about how the idea of such a call (costing not much at all) would have been impossibly glamorous when I was a little lad. The world has got considerably smaller since then.
So much has been gained through the extraordinary developments in the technology of communication over half a century or so. But I have an odd feeling that something precious has been lost. Just not sure what that something is.
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