Television´s role in tomorrow´s world

In this discussion, which was originally presented at the Fifth International Television Symposium, the author, in his role as prophet, suggests at the outset that the concept of such a meeting may be doomed for obsolescence; a more apt name for the next symposium might well be the First International Information Conference. He points out that a unified system of electronic communications media, combined with a data processing system built around the computer, may well be the principal information source of the future. Viewed in such a context, tomorrow´s television techniques promise many benefits, both for the industry and for the consumer.