"TV-telephone shopping is common. To shop, you simply press the numbered code of a giant shopping center. You press another combination to zero in on the department and the merchandise in which you are interested."

--> I find it fascinating that they just couldn't conceive of a massive network of computers to do things like this... some things are so out to lunch still, but things like direct deposit of funds into your bank account, I can't believe that was so far fetched?