Dr. Bell's Monster

Dr. Bell's MonsterAh, the telephone, what a lovely invention!--Marcel ProustNow that the telephone is 100 years old, is it not time to admit that it has taken over? Is it not the world's largest machine, and are we not its dutiful tenders? Is it not the nervous system of the noosphere--the layer of human intelligence glazing the earth's surface that the Jesuit (continued on page 86) Dr. Bell's Monster (continued from page 79) paleontologist/theologian Teilhard de Chardin warned would be the next...