European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Life aft How Well communicate by Barbara Moffet National geographic when communications technology was introduced to the it May not have been love at first but it certainly looked like a promising today the two arc practically i separa its getting awfully hard to Tell the difference be tween modern Cal processing equipment and a compute says Joel director of gets telecommunications research the Romance is still in the honeymoon but by the next Century the Union will its effects per Meating nearly every aspect of american in some forms of such As the effect will be a possibly intimidating intrusion of Electron in the computers will be so sophisticated that they May go artificial intelligence for will create computers that will respond to voice requiring neither special knowledge nor a a dozen revolutionary technologies will turn the Telephone into an multipurpose but rather than feel totally at the mercy of the phones the owner will have some no longer will the calling party have All the says Bob Foster of Bell nuisance Calls will be avoidable the phone system will be programmed to Trace an unwanted Call and reject future Calls from the by about the year a Telephone network of optical fibres will have burst into the carrying a deluge of diverse information electronic banking and shopping both Telephone and television equipment will be converted to digital trans Mission using rapid pulses of electricity or Light greatly expanding capacity and enhancing television smart ened by computer will be in even greater a Hal dozen services competing for its but the to owner will have much More control than he now has Over what appears on the screen and All telecommunications will be boosted by Silicon chips that May be three times As powerful As they Are convergence of these along with souped up satellites and other will blur the distinctions among traditional methods of video and mailing and filing systems will work together to create new ways of but one fear is As Basic forms of communication become society May Divide into in formation haves and some americans May Lack the financial or technical ability to says Gary president of Arlen a consulting will we have information Stamps like the food Stamps of today he most of the new technologies share a purpose letting the communicator be somewhere Hes the next step in their evolution will be says Robert a research director at Bell Laborati this form of artificial intelligence will allow a person in one place to see through the hear through the and feel through the hands of a robot in another but the world could get pretty Lucky if everyone just sat still and let robots do All the As More activities Are carried out Iso lated from human chances for family and mental illness go Ian Reinecke Points out in a electronic the technology is going says Lucky of but the social knowledge is coming a lot More what effect will computer proliferation ultimately have on the English language because computer time costs two Way computer conversations undoubtedly will contain such abbreviations As Chat awhile that will infiltrate everyday but words will be easier to keep up with when a pocket computer can hold the entire Oxford English new technologies will add to the next Century Lexi but global communication should be be cause English will be the almost Universal some forms of and their future mail service the postman May be a rarer sight after replaced by an electronic mail with a computer a Modem to translate messages into electronic and an Ordinary Tele people will be Able to Send anything from personal messages to complicated documents almost several companies Are anticipating a future electronic mail Federal express for is mov ing toward the Day when overnight delivery will sound Many future documents will move automatic Al the message will go from a company roof Antenna to our then to a Tel Hub for Back to the and then broadcast to the says Allan Mcartor of Federal eventually we want to offer anyone in the world who has an Antenna and a facsimile machine Access to whatever information they 100 million electronic mail messages a excluding Interoffice Are being but postal officials say they expect conventional mail delivery to continue Well into the next if As some Bill paying goes totally the postal service May be scraping for videotex cleaner fingers will be one Benefit of the 21stcentury Page 14 the stars and stripes photo by National geographic getting lost wont be so easy in the future cars will come equipped with programmable navigational May 1985 illustration by Elizabeth Golz Rush that generation of printing presses will use a technology guaranteeing sharper printing and Ink that wont rub next Century newspaper May not have classified ads and Stock those space consuming features will be accessible through the marriage of the Telephone and Home computer or television if youre looking for a certain kind of for you would key in the formation and a list of candidates would appear on your explains Gary videotex will provide some airline and other speciality a few such services already Dow Jones for sends 35 services to its most of them Tising personal future videotex probably will be used for and planning another Newborn videodisc will provide a moving picture version of a Magazine that can be delivered through phone lines and played on a Home telephones a digital form of transmission will allow people and computers to communicate Over enor Mous distances with nearly perfect reproduction of info hair thin optical replacing today Copper will bring a flood of information services to with fiber there will suddenly be a super Highway of communications into the says Luck of some telephones also will be Low Cost computer Termi callers in two cities May View a graph or document simultaneously Over their phone voice commands May replace phone another technology could allow people to assign Priori ties to using personal keys codes Given out to certain people May have a lifelong phone assigned at the whole concept of dealing will says youll dial a not a Mobile phones in today cars and based on cellular Are Steps toward personal satellite by i would expect to see the equivalent of the Dick Tracy wrist predicts Krugler of but Mobile phones could threaten warns Stuart editor and publisher personal communications if you have a wrist phone on All the someone could track you and compile a dossier on everything you he but youll be Able to walk the streets at night and feel that help is available at the touch of a by the Globe will be ringed with Ocean floor optical fibres that will use laser beams to shoot digital bits of information along strands of with less distortion and far More Speed than in Metal today computer transmission is so slow Between continents that weather has already gotten to Europe before the information about it says Frank Tuttle National geographic society of the ultimate in International communication May be the integrated services digital which someday is expected to tie together All the worlds conversations and data and picture with such Standardi computer systems in All countries could communicate some finally create a paperless television when you awaken on 2000 election Day you May go no farther than your television screen to it will be a vehicle for Cable and direct broadcast satellite videocassette recorder and videodisc Home videotex information and video two Way video May become one Possi ble use doctor and patient could discuss symptoms and diagnosis face to in the 21st television itself will be a member of the computer speaking a digital Lan the transition now under Way to digital freeze frames if and display two or More Chan Nels on a split Long before to sets and programming will have gone allowing for a program to be broadcast in two languages at the same Cable to eventually May be replaced by fiber to when a network of optical fibres funnels programs into and interactive Cable will deliver the movie of ones Choice at the touch of a eliminating the need to buy or rent later in the 21st Century we May watch three Dimen signal based on the laser technology of Holo Holographic to will make digital technology look says Stephen senior scientist at Polaroid research he there Are several world class inventions Between Here and at the office the Small business office of the future May be nothing More than a portable package of communications an executive May drop into the office meanwhile toting an electronic briefcase bearing a and Small some dictation will bypass words on a screen for immedi books textbooks replaced by and encyclopedia volumes by videodisc the future Library May be not a but a Many books will be in electronic forms and accessible by wire or says Bob planning director for the Library of people May do research at the Library of Congress without coming to some books cant be replaced by a no mat Ter How compact it the printed word has survived other revolutionary says Edward presi Dent of the world future it is Likely to survive the computer the stars and stripes Page 15