For centuries new communication technologies have been shrinking the distances between people and places. Most recently, the Internet allows people from different parts of the world to communicate, to meet, and to share and exchange cultural ideas.

Here Grandma Cox introduces baby Madeline to Grandma Hart via Skype.

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