Electronic' mail delivery is another exciting prospect of the very near future. Letters will be automatically read and flashed from continent to continent and reproduced at receiving stations within a few minutes of transmission.

All these things are associated with information processing, and 1/3 of the Gross National Product is now spent on this in one form of another, data storage, TV, radio, books and so forth,

This ratio is increasing our society is changing from a goods-producing society to an information-processing one.

I have devoted much of one book Voices from the Sky to the social consequences of this and can mention only a few here.

One could be the established of English as the world language, through the direct telecast satellites mentioned above.

Within the next ten years, the future language of mankind will be decided in a bloodless battle 22,000 miles above the equator.