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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ircuitcapacity to provide this playback from the audience.Again, though, the technical problems are being mas-tered. There may be some new educational toolsdeveloped — but the promise of ETV goes well be-yond mechanical marvels. The big hope is social,personal, human. The solutions proposed for our most pressingsocial problems are quite varied depending on whomyou talk to. Most people agree, however, that goodeducation for all is one of the things that must beaccomplished somehow if we are to make any prog-ress in this area. ETV seems to be one of the educa-tional tools that may be useful here. Turning back to his papers, James flips some pagesat random. Thats what all these charts and theorieson how to get more broadband capacity come downto. ETV can put more teachers, better teachers, newand better teaching techniques, in front of more kids,more often, and at less cost. Our TV network gives usthe base to build on toward these goals. When theeducators are ready, well be ready. D 33
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Way-Out Ways to Communicate by Dr. John R. Pierce As a longtime reader of science fic-tion, Ive compared todays worldwith the predictions writers in thepast have made about it. Somehow,prophecies and reality dont jibe. What went wrong when pastprophets tried to take science andtechnology into account in picturingthe future? In looking into the future, AldousHuxley, for example, saw man over-whelmed by machines and by a so-cial structure which seems to pointclearly to a civilization of more com-pact and crowded cities, and to adomination of every aspect of manslife by technology. But, looking at contemporaryAmerican life, we find that science,technology, and man himself haveplayed a nasty trick on such prophe-cies. We can see that sprawling sub-urbia and a wandering population arechief characteristics of the nonstag-nant part of our society. What prophets of Utopias and anti-utopias lacked, partly, was a fore-knowledge of unpredictable inven-tions. For example, the transistor andthe va

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