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I loved this "Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books. Synchronous satellites, hovering in space will make it possible for you to direct-dial any spot on earth, including the weather stations in Antarctica (shown in chill splendor as part of the '64 General Motors exhibit)."


He was right about Antarctica. In 1998 and 2001 my dad did winter missions with the Australian Antarctic Division née ANARE.

Part of his job was keeping the satellite links functional. We got to talk to him on the phone once a week.

On the numbers, he had more bandwidth than I did at the time -- 155kbps. Latency was a bit rough though.




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