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>but since communications were expensive, phones were not ringing often.

This is a very important point, and it's crucial for people to understand that merely making something more available can have an outsized effect.



TBH, I think covid and the push towards Zoom and others had a similar outsized effect. It made synchronous meetings nearly "free" for many more people.




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