… are Washington and the Kremlin are now no farther apart than the speed of light, atleast technically.

Many of you might be familiar with this story, but as somebody who listened to it for the first time, I am totally fascinated by this recap of the first-ever live television broadcast by Walter Cronkite. Every time orbiting Telstar would pass over Atlantic, it would provide an 18 min window of communication between Europe and United States. One of those windows witnessed Kennedy reassuring the dollar to a question that some how got serendipitously squeezed into the window before telstar went down the horizon. Ta-da! The dollar gains strength almost instantaneously! This recap is just awesome!

If anything has changed in the whole story…it is no longer Washington and Kremlin….but New York, San Francisco, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapore, Bangalore….and that’s the way it is. Thursday, December 07, 2006. Good day!