A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally...

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.

Arthur C. Clarke in First on the Moon (1970)
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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