Now this story doesn't start with vast telescopes or futuristic spacecraft, but a rather more humble technology -- and in fact, the very medium which gave us the telecommunications revolution that we're all part of today: the telephone.
这一故事并不以 天文望远镜 或是宇宙飞船开始， 而是以一种更不起眼的方式 -- 实际上，这种方式 带来了我们正置身其中的 远距离通信的革命： 电话。