I. COMMUNICATION Satellite communication will be in current application not only for point-to-point transmission connecting all countries of the world for telephone, data facsimile and television, but satellite broadcasting will also be operating with automatic and available selection of spoken intelligence in all principal languages. Television broadcasting from satellites will cover very large areas. Translation service will be made available for international communications first by human translation—next by electronic translation. The world-wide satellite system will provide electronic mail service for the written word while electric typewriters will reproduce typed text for international transmission. On the very dense transmission links for relatively short distances (up to a few thousand miles) on land, waveguide transmission will replace microwave space transmission and will give a bandwidth capacity that will make available thousands of television channels; this will permit transmission of masses of data, of newspapers and printed material and will make available the phone vision to a large section of the subscribers at a reasonable cost. The carrier used in the waveguide will be a coherent beam of light. The distribution of newspapers and magazines will have been considerably modified by the introduction of electronic transmission, through which subscribers will receive them. The paper (or rather its equivalent) will be made locally automatically from a liquid. In many instances the reader will not want a permanent record and will avoid the paper