SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Shrunken Globe


A CompuServe real-time Conference about International Telecommunications:

1. Why international telecommunications is relatively scattered and difficult now;

2. The future of international telecomm technology; The effects of this future on individual people and on nations.


SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1986

1 PM - 5 PM (Pacific Standard Time)

4 PM - 8 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Agenda:

1:15 PM PST Alan Clapp, organizer of a World Teleport in Vancouver, on Teleports.

1:30 PM PST Joel Schatz, who linked Russian and American scientists via computer network, on Teleports and on Computer Networking and the Cold War.

2:30 PM PST Takeshi Utsumi, on global simulations of peace and war through international computer conferencing.

3:15 PM PST Michael Kleeman on ISDN--the new scheme to link telephone company systems around the world, for running video, voice, and data through the phone lines worldwide.

4:00 PM PST Izumi Aizu, on using international computer conferencing to save the Ikego Forest in Japan.

Your hosts: Art Kleiner, Whole Earth Forum, and Gerri Sinclair, international telecomm bricoleur (based in Vancouver)

Conference sponsor: Alan Clapp, director, the Space Station Project (World Teleport and exhibit hall), Douglass College, Vancouver.