[birds chirping] [waves crashing] [birds chirping] [waves crashing] mom, how do they fly . They ride on the air. Like an air car . Sort of. What are you building . Its a house, cant you tell . Yes, but you have not finished it. What is this room . That is the center where i go to school. And this . That is where the computer lives and where i go to sleep and where you and daddy sleep. And where we go to swim, and where we see and where we see the ball games. And the symphony. You left out the room or you are supposed to scrub behind your ears. Yes. The bath floor. You left out one other room. Where daddy exercises . Right. How does the computer know everything . I mean like, how many times to exercise . I havent the faintest notion. That is just too much for your mother to understand. You are not so old. But i will be 44 next year. That is not so old. Not anymore. What year is it now, i forgot. I will show you. 1999 a. D. More than a generation away and yet dreams travel faster than light. Even now, scientists are shaping the lives of our children who will live in the 21st century. How will they live . Perhaps in a honeycomb structure like this, the oldest, strongest, natural shape known. Hexagon modules that grow with a family size and interest. My goal, husband, father, is an astrophysicist. Several days each week he commits to a distant laboratory where he engages in the mars one project, the colonization of the first planet. His minor in the 10 years he attended a Midwestern University was not me. It is one of his many hobbies. He is in grossed on this sunny morning of the study of a structure of a new fruit tree. Hopefully, his experiments or produce a giant peach with a skin like active tangerine. This is one of the many 21st century devices or appliances that are bought in the everyday life of the shaw family. This workbench with its screen enables michael to call photographic sections of the two parent fruit trees, which he began his experiments on three years ago. At that time, he stored the two photographic images in the central home computer, which is secretary, librarian, banker, teacher, medical technician, bridge partner, allaround servant in this house. All pertinent information about this family, its records, its taste, Reference Material is stored in these memory banks available instantly to every member of the family. Master james shaw, eight years student, attends formal school two mornings a week. Much of his education is carried on in a kind of Educational Center within the home. An era that began 500 years earlier with copernicus and galileo ends as the first astronaut takes his first step onto the shores of the moon and begins a new age of man. His assignments are programmed into the home computer and fed into teaching machines, which allow him to progress as rapidly as an awakening line can absorb the visual lesson. This is lecture 102. Galileos life work, and indeed his personal character can perhaps be exemplified by describing one of his earliest experiments. According to aristotle, a body that falls possesses weight. Those that do not fall have no weight. Since air does not fall, it has no weight. Galileo decided to examine this conclusion in his own fashion. Shaw, 43, wife, mother, parttime homemaker. Mom, i am hungry. How about lunch . How about two minutes. Two minutes and counting. 120, 119. You better not show up with a dirty face. 115, 113, 112. How about Chicken Salad . Cheese omelette . Cheeseburger, french fries and a nice cold beer. Absolutely. Mike, cold roast beef . Ok, be right there. 75, 74, 73. [jazz playing] 39, 38, 37, 36. [jazz playing] 20, 19, 18, 17, 16. [jazz playing] 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Lunch is served. Splitsecond lunches. Disposable dishes all part of the instant society tomorrow. Society rich in leisure and taken for granted comforts. At the turn of the next century, most food would be stored frozen in individual portions. The computer will keep a running inventory and suggest daily menus based on the needs of the family. When the meal has been selected, the portions are fed automatically into the microwave oven for a few seconds of thawing or warming. The house of 1999 will the virtually maintenance free. A central atmospheric system will maintain constant yearround temperatures and control humidity, bacteria, pollen and dust. Clothing of the nondisposable variety will be stored in cleaning closets where a chemical vapor atmosphere, and an ultrasonic vibrator will remove dirt particles. Fingertip shopping will be one of the many homemakers conveniences. This video console will be channeled into the store of their choice. There, a camera will scan a display which she will select by pushbutton. Another part of this console is a household monitor screen, which maintains a watch on critical areas in the house, swimming poll, or yard. What the wife selects on her console will be paid for by the husband on his counterpart consul. All bills and transactions will be carried out electronically. A central Bank Computer will debit the familys account the amount of purchases and credit the department store, for example. Informing the familys home computer at the same time. Father, at the touch of a button receives an instantaneous copy of his budget, the amount of taxes he owes, the payments left on the car and so forth. All documents and household records are available on the video screen for immediate reference. Also at his disposal is an electronic correspondence machine, or home post office, which allows for instant writ and communication between individuals anywhere in the world. To maintain these and hundreds of complex electronic circuits, a monitor checks all circuits every few seconds and serves a backup circuit if and when trouble develops. And alerts the Communal Service agency for replacement. The home energy center, with its fuel cells, furnishes power, burns waste, and sheets or cools the rooms. Too computerized, too cold . The world of tomorrow will be as cold as sunlight through photo comic windows. It will be as wide as the ocean, which will provide the not only recreation for the adventurous, but an increasing variety of exotic foodstuffs. Tomorrow will be as happy as music. Whats up . Im playing songs. What is it called . I forgot. Faker. Figure you how about playing the song we learned yesterday . Ok. Lets augment this a bit, shall we . Ok. Yes, life will be richer, easier, healthier as spaceage dreams come true. As part of his everyday regime, michael enters this home health center. He lies for 15 seconds on a kind of medical couch. , pulse,ht, temperature respiration, routinely recorded. At the same time, his body is scanned for any isolated temperature pockets that signal on coming disease or a localized infection. At the end of the examination period, the computer calculates the amount of exercise necessary to balance his food intake and maintain proper muscle tone. Exercise requirements. Bicycle, six minutes, calisthenics. That is ridiculous. This thing cannot make a mistake, you know. Your weight increase over 30 days. 1. 1 kilograms. Repeat exercise required, eight and a half minutes bicycle comma six minutes calisthenics. The computer now relays any important physical changes to a Medical Center were mikes personal physician will be alerted for further diagnosis. At conclusion of the exercise period, the pertinent data is recorded for preexercise are recorded for comparison with preexercise measurements. The results are forwarded to the community Medical Center for further study if necessary. If the computerized life occasionally extracts its pound of flesh, it holds up an interesting reward. Hi fred, how is the old golf game . Dont ask. Six inches of snow in a blizzard on the way, what do have in mind . How about some golf at pebble beach saturday afternoon . Anything to get out of here. Hold on a minute. The coast looks doubtful. Ow moving in. Let me check mexico city. It looks great. Here is what we will do. We will meet at the el centro at noon, have some lunch and then we will tee off. Great. I will have to get about two strokes a side because i have not played all winter and im a little rusty and i know youve . Een playing all day, right i will have to get to strokes in a virtually dirt free environment, karen shaw gets her hands a very dirty. She is a skilled potter. The work decorates their home and the homes of many friends. During her career years she was a teacher of fine arts. Now she is able to continue practicing her craft. Because a household demands have been greatly diminished. The same way jamie, although he has a rigorous lesson schedule, is already taking advantage of his electronic world. Whos your worthy opponent . Dad. I am replaying the game we had sunday. He is a little loose with his queens. I want to see if i can work that trap that Bobby Fischer used in the world games. Your dad will be home soon, what you wait to play him live . Ok. Ive got things to do in the kitchen. I think i will help you. [footsteps] what are you doing with the oranges . I am fixing dinner. The oldfashioned way . Yes, the oldfashioned way. What you call that stuff . Lawe are having duckling a orange, my love. That is fancy, are we having company . The shaws are giving a party. How is your flight . We finally got clearance from denver to go to 25,000 feet during to go to 25,000 feet to to go to 25,000 feet. How are things in paris, is your family ok . Marge loves it. How is the fishing in the philippines . Have not been fishing like that anywhere in the world. You cannot beat the amazon. I recorded a great singer in san juan the other night. Would you like to see it . Oh,yeah. [bongos playing] [singing in spanish] [applause] , would you make me a duplicate of that, i would like to show it to my friends to spend time down there. I guess youll want it in 3d. Yes, we finally made the switch. You have to keep up with the times. There is 3d, 4d, what is next . You never know. You never really know. Whats next . The things you have seen are technically possible today. It remains only to apply what we now know to fulfill these dreams of tomorrow. The world of 1999 and beyond is limited only by the boundaries of our imagination today. You are watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Night, on the communicators where on location at bell labs for the first of a two part interview series are in bell labs is one of the premier Communication Research facilities in the world, providing work on lasers and information theory. The bell labs president discusses what is new in Information Technology and research. We have presented you a ton of data but not knowledge, not the ability to think better. In the next era you will connect anything we will connect everything, the building, the environment, you, so we see what is going on. The jetsons,ll be automatically clean for you, your energy will be automatically managed. Your car may be automatically driver. All of that requires a massive change in how you build networks. The cloud has to move into a network. The network will become valued again and the devices will be everywhere. Car,ew, in you, your infrastructure, that is when we will see the increase in productivity. The communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Tv is onan history cspan3 every weekend, featuring museum tors, archival films, and programs on the presidency, the civil war, and more. Heres a clip from a recent program. Ofin the immediate aftermath 1787, northern states passed a series of laws allowing slaveholders to so joan to so just to soujourn with their slaves in states where slavery was being abolished. Beginning in 1830s just norn states began to strip began to restrict this right so it was dangerous for slaveholders to travel in northern states. To thegest obstacle gradual emancipation of the north was the fugitive slave clause of the constitution. We call the crisis of the 18