The President's Analyst (1967)

Pat Harrington Jr.: Arlington Hewes

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• Arlington Hewes : Now to look at that hand you'd never dream that you were also looking at a miracle in modern communications, would you? Well, sir., let's take a closer look. Thanks to the science of microelectronics, you are looking at a complete telephonic receiver and transmitter. We call it the cerebrum communicator, or the CC for short. This dandy little device can actually perform every function of the old-fashioned telephone, and more. And it does it without any costly maintenance. Without telephone poles. Without wires. Without exchanges. Without anything, in fact, except another CC in another location. Now you're wondering why we have made it so small? Because it will be in and powered by your own brain. Fantastic? Well, not quite, no. We merely inject the CC into that part of the bloodstream that leads directly to the brain. Technically speaking, for you doctors, we inject the CC into the internal carotid artery. The bloodstream carries it directly to the cerebrum, where it lodges comfortably in the anterior central gyrus. Which for us laymen, is simply that part of the brain where intellectual associations take place. Can you imagine the ease, the fun, with which you can place a call? Why all you have to do is think the number of the person you wish to speak with, and you're in instant communication, anywhere in the world.