Technology
When 'Checking In' From Vacation Meant Finding a Payphone and Praying You Had Quarters
In 1980, a three-minute phone call from a hotel in London to a family in Ohio could cost more than a night's accommodation. Today, that same conversation happens in HD video, for free, from a beach. The story of how communication costs collapsed — and what that collapse did to the very idea of being away — is more disorienting than most people expect.
