Sarnoff's Seven Years

Electronics Pioneer David Sarnoff, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, last week took a look into the future. At the Manhattan convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers, he predicted these developments in the next seven years:

P:Transistors, the tiny, tubeless gadgets that do the work of much larger electron tubes and last almost indefinitely, will put electronics to work in "many fields which the electron tube has not been able to serve . . . We should not be surprised to see electronic appliances find their way into the home. Air conditioners, using electronics, eliminating motors, blowers and compressors, and therefore noiseless, may lead a mighty procession." P:In industry, "wherever danger, remoteness or discomfort preclude the presence of a human observer, the industrial television camera can take his place." P:In education, "schools . . . may employ their TV sets to bring talks and demonstrations to the entire school or to selected classes, without the loss of time attendant upon a call to assembly." P:In television itself, tape recordings of both pictures and sound "will obsolete the use of film . . . and reduce overall costs." P:In the home, closed-circuit TV will make "the television receiver truly the control center . . . The snap of a switch will turn the receiver from the broadcast program to view the children asleep in the nursery or at play in the yard, or the cooking on the kitchen range. The housewife will not only hear but see the caller at the door before she opens it."

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