Global Communications for Humans and Machines: Extending Alexander Graham Bell's Vision

Alexander Graham Bell, a native of Edinburgh, expected that his invention, the telephone, would join people over great distances. Not only has this vision been realized, but new digital technology, now evolving, promises to link humans and machines around the world. Varied forms of information - voice, picture, data, text, audio, fax - will become ubiquitously available through the cooperating technologies of communications and computation.