Years ago I recall reading a story by, I think, Isaac Asimov. Its central theme was phone exchanges becoming sentient.  Does anyone know what I am thinking about or am I dreaming and should quickly write this story?
I am looking for a short story I read long ago about the phone system 'waking up'. It talks about how the phone system had just reached the number of connections as the number in the human brain. They lead you somehow to wonder (maybe characters speculating?) and it ends with a 'baby cry' of all the phones in the world ringing. I think I read it at least 20 years ago, maybe as many as 30. I think it was after 1978 because I think it was after I went to work at Bell Labs - so the phone connection resonated:-). It was definitely pre-internet.   What was the title? Who was the author? Any more on the plot since my memory is very hazy? I remember really liking the story and this site has got me thinking about my ATF's.
Possible Duplicate:          When I add a piece of code of figure insertion to the context I'm faced with a problem: a number of irrelevant words appear.    Code:  \begin{figure}     \centering         \includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{C:/Thesis/Latex/thesis_1(1)/Pictures/study area.jpg}         \rule{35em}{0.3pt}     \caption{The Grand St. Bernard wireless sensor network deployment (a) the coordinates of nodes according to the Swiss coordinate system (b) the distribution of the nodes in the study site \citep{r33}}     \label{fig:study area} \end{figure}   Problem: