Telegraph Created the United States
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible—indeed, inevitable—the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
Notes:
Satellites will create the United Nations. A quote from Arthur C. Clarke.
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