2 SCIENCE REMAKING THE WORLD 



presence. A modern train transports the passenger 

 while he eats, sleeps, and writes his plans for his meeting. 

 The necessary conference is held next morning, and the 

 following morning he is back at his regular post. 



This ready and effective communication and dizzy 

 speed of travel have become ordinary and slow, as 

 modern science continues to work. By wireless we 

 speak not merely from New York to Chicago or to 

 'San Francisco, but over the oceans around the earth 

 in a few relays. So rapidly is science improving com- 

 munication that we hesitate to write of "wireless," 

 knowing full well that what we say will be out of date, 

 possibly, before the statements appear on the printed 

 page. And what of human transportation? The 

 Twentieth Century, the Broadway Limited, or the 

 Transcontinental Express, apparently creeps along as 

 the modern airplane above speeds on its way. A regu- 

 lar service route is proposed which will permit the pas- 

 senger to dine in New York or Chicago, go to a theatre, 

 then take his airplane sleeper, and breakfast in the 

 other city. Even the erstwhile astounding feat of a 

 non-stop flight in twenty-seven hours from New York 

 to San Diego has ceased to give us its early thrill, so 

 confident are we that modern science contains possi- 

 bilities surpassing our wildest expectations. "Twenty 

 thousand leagues under the sea" no longer seems 

 fanciful. "You can no more do that than you can fly," 

 is now meaningless. "Voices passing through the air," 

 is now so true that even we as speak to one another 

 there may be passing through the atmosphere about 

 you unseen messages pertaining to peace and war, love 



