Satellite communications connect television screens in Japan with television cameras in England, and the distance of half a world loses its meaning.
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In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!
Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.
American television tends to move faster than European or U.K. television.
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
One good thing about television is that you have a lot of people with money who have real good cameras going around to all these countries. You haven't been there? Great. Turn on The History Channel or The Discovery Channel. So, we're lucky in that way.
Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.