[NJARC] Interesting Sarnoff Quote

[Al Klase]

David Sarnoff, 1964: "The computer will become the hub of a vast network 
of remote data stations and information banks feeding into the machine 
at a transmission rate of a billion or more bits of information a 
second. Laser channels will vastly increase both data capacity and the 
speeds with which it will be transmitted. Eventually, a global 
communications network handling voice, data and facsimile will instantly 
link man to machine--or machine to machine--by land, air, underwater, 
and space circuits. [The computer] will affect man's ways of thinking, 
his means of education, his relationship to his physical and social 
environment, and it will alter his ways of living... [Before the end of 
this century, these forces] will coalesce into what unquestionably will 
become the greatest adventure of the human mind."--from David Sarnoff by 
Eugene Lyons, 1966.

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Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
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