In March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell uttered these now famous words, “Mr. Watson, come here—I want to see you.” That day marked the beginning of an extraordinary time in communication—the advent of the telephone. Since then there have been thousands of changes in our communication systems, many of which I outlined in a previous column in Quality Digest Daily entitled “Whatever Happened To Pink Slips? ” In that column I traced some communication systems starting with the rudimentary clanking of rocks by cave men to our modern technology with cell phones. More recently I purchased a TomTom GPS system for our car. Obviously there is no limit on where technology will take us.

During the last couple of months my wife and I learned about Kindle, which is a device that displays books on a hand-held screen. No longer does one have to tote around large books—most any book you want to read can be downloaded on the Kindle, which resembles a laptop with about a 10-inch screen. By using Amazon.com, one can download more than 400,000 book titles.

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