This will mean the abolition of all present geographical restrictions to TV, via satellites, any country can broadcast to any other.

Direct broadcast TV will be possible within 5 years and may be most important to undeveloped countries that have no ground stations, and now may never require any.

Africa, China and South America could be opened up by direct TV broadcast, and whole populations brought into the modern world. I believe that communications satellites may bring about the long-overdue end of the Stone Age.

They will certainly lead to a global telephone system and end long-distance calls, for all calls will be local. There will be the same flat rate everywhere.

Newspapers will I think, receive their final body blow from these new communications techniques.

How I look forward to the day when I can press a button and get any type of news, editorials, book and theatre reviews, etc, merely by dialling the right channel.

Moreover, not only today's but any newspaper ever published will be available.

Some sort of TV-like console connected to a central electronic library, could make available any information ever printed in any form.