You never change anything by fighting it; you change things by making them obsolete through superior technology. Telstar replaced five hundred tons of transoceanic cable. It used to take us three years to circumnavigate the globe in a wooden-hulled ship. It took three months in a steel ship, ninety minutes in a space capsule and now instantaneously with telecommunications.

As told by Mike Vance and Diane Deacon in Think Out of the Box