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With the invention of the telescope, science eliminated distance, quipped Melquíades in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Melquíades, a supernatural figure, continued: ‘In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house.’

That time is here.

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