[martin_fierro]

An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant.

Ah, we had such lofty hopes, didn't we.

[Brett66]

They hade nickelodians back then, that could of suggested what direction that would've taken hold. :)