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We Know Enough To Be Sure That The Scientific Achievements Of The Next Fifty Years Will Be Far Greater, More Rapid, And More Surprising, Than Those We Have Already Experienced. ... Wireless Telephones And Television, Following Naturally Upon The Their Present Path Of Development, Would Enable Their Owner To Connect Up To Any Room Similarly Equipped And Hear And Take Part In The Conversation As Well As If He Put His Head In Through The Window.

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We Know Enough To Be Sure That The Scientific Achievements Of The Next Fifty Years Will Be Far Greater, More Rapid, And More Surprising, Than Those We Have Already Experienced. ... Wireless Telephones And Television, Following Naturally Upon The Their Present Path Of Development, Would Enable Their Owner To Connect Up To Any Room Similarly Equipped And Hear And Take Part In The Conversation As Well As If He Put His Head In Through The Window.

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