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What hath God wrought!
With these words, sent over the first crackling telegraph line in 1844, modern telecommunications began. ' Long distance ' then was 38 miles; now it can mean a message to a space craft orbiting Mars, and a local call can connect you with the most modern computers in the world. But has the technology advanced more than our ability to think of uses of it? Peter Evans asks. ' Hath God wrought ' something more than a way of ' dialling a bedtime story '? Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.0 ptn)

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