--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> Padraic Brown scripsit:
>
> > Probably within a decade or so, we'll all have to
> dial
> > about 20 numbers to make a call.
>
> Fear not.
I don't know. This area has gone from 2 or 3 digit
dialing to 10 or 11 digits in a little over half a
century.
> That would require a 10^10-fold
> (ten-billion-fold) increase
> in phone numbers.
Probably not that bad. I suspect that any changes will
be along the lines of adding new multidigit access
codes; rather than running out of numbers. There's no
reason why they can't add some code for fax or modem
dialling.
> Unless we go assigning phone numbers to bacteria,
What with animal rights, etc., don't count that
possibility out!
> or spread across the Galaxy, we will never go that
> far.
Or some new technological doololly.
Padraic.
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