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Though her reason still forbade her as strongly as ever to relinquish her intellectual freedom for the bondage of dogmas , she was beginning to understand that Christianity has its reason for existence , and to doubt whether , even if it were possible , it would be wise to suddenly exterminate it . The Air Force was all for it , Baran said , but AT & T , the world 's best telephone system at the time , said it would n't work . And it would be phased in incrementally in any event , because it would take time to work out the details of various arms accords and considerable time to implement an effective aid program for North Korea . Realizing how easy it would be for communications systems to fail , Baran and his colleagues designed a stronger communications network using " redundancy " and digital technology . If there is one battle that the federal government needs to pick , it would be to legislate some kind of standards for intrusive measures , the actual physical living conditions .