A reasonable part of the house

There was, in most homes, a small, boxy machine affixed to the wall, usually in the kitchen, and this machinewas called a telephone. —Wikipedia, 2030

The home telephone had a good hundred-year run. Its days are numbered now. Its name, truncated to justphone, will live on, attached anachronistically to the diminutive general-purposecomputers wecarry around with us. (We really should have called them teles rather than phones.) But the thingitself?It’s headed for history’s landfill, one layer u...