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Instant Response Modern communiction has reached the sophisticated of computerised telephone systems in the developed countries. In a good many towns in the US, for instance, a system called “enhanced 911" has been installed. The number 911 has to be dialled in that country in an emergency for the caller to summon help. With enhanced 911, a telephone company is now able to trace the originating number of the call and the caller's address instantly even without the caller saying a word! Such instant tracing has already led to timely help in a number of cases in which the callers were not able to say where they were called from. It has been possible for some time to trace calls quickly. But it has been only in the last year or so that completely integrated systems, in which numbers can be immediately identified and converted to addresses, could be installed in small and medium-sized towns. This has been possibe thanks to a sharp drop in computer prices. Even New York now wants to install one. They system's computer is so efficient that after tracing the call it can itself determine whether the emergency relates to the city's police, fire or ambulance department. In Orlando, Florida, a panic-stricken woman caller dialled 911 but could not say a word before hanging up. Gunshots, however, were clearly audible. Within minutes police cars were on their way to the correct address and the culprit - an enraged gun-toting relative to the woman - was apprehended. In another case, a deaf and dumb person could summon help in similar fashion in an emergency. The Times of India, (New Delhi) April 16, 1985