More than a hundred different members keep in touch through the Internet. They keep people informed of births and deaths and graduations. It is important in focusing on what's ahead in communications, to zero in not on the technology, but what we use technology for. They say, Let's call Grandma. We havn't always kept that in mind.
Most people today are primarily receivers of information.
We listen to radio. In this decade we will transmit more and more as well. We'll send and receive, not just on the telephone but across the full range of the new technologies. We'll turn from consumers into providers. In a way, this change represents a kind of empowerment.