while he is hundreds of miles distant from you, whenever you wish and in the quickest possible time, and with the assurance that no third ear is listening in on the conversation between you, if you both so desire. All this is done by means of the television apparatus in your possession and a similar apparatus in the possession of the person you wish to address. In that case you have only to switch on the apparatus and turn a certain knob in it, just as you turn the knobs of a radio set to listen to the broadcast of one of the radio stations. But television has two essential advantages over wireless broadcasting: first, every television apparatus is at once a receiver and a transmitter; second, by means of the television apparatus you can see persons and things.
... And modern science never ceases to press forward. Every day it registers a new discovery in the various domains of nature and of life.
Applied science aims before all else at man's comfort and at providing the means of livelihood. In medicine it fights disease; in nature it confronts her dominion and subjects it to the will of reason; in society, in economics, and the like, it works toward organization, and toward guiding individuals and communities to security, tranquility, and sufficiency.
Modern science was not content, for example, with shortening the distances between the corners of the globe to a degree that formerly would never have crossed the
A dining room in this modern train — as if it were a traveling home
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mind; it labors hard, as well, to provide travelers with every means of comfort.
At the top of this text are views of a modern train that lacks nothing — as if it were a complete house.