Pages RAIN Jan./Feb. 1984 do a space bridge with a school in Moscow. The City of Seattle wants to build space bridges with its sister city, Tashkent, U.S.S.R. It's a time of enormous opportunity. What do we have to fear if we truly believe in the first amendment? The freedoms we enjoy can only be maintained by preserving the right to have free and open discussion. We ought to be the last people in the solar system to want to discourage communication with anybody, unless people feel such lack of confidence in freedom and democracy that they think they'll catch a case of communism if they talk to a member of the Soviet government. RAIN: What do you think lies ahead for people-to- people communication? Schatz: One of the [facets] of high technology that fascinates me is its potential for quietly and rapidly rendering international frontiers less important than they are at the moment. The first computer was made operational the same year we destroyed Nagasaki and Hiroshima. So it's kind of a race between communications and nuclear obliteration. The advent of microwave dishes and associated technologies is exciting to me as a move toward decentralized communications. Someone just called me to say a friend in Salem, Oregon, picked up a Soviet soap opera by microwave, and they taped it from a Soviet satellite that goes around the North Pole. They're now picking up Soviet television stations every day. It's impossible not to be involved in this because it's global by definition. Ham operators in the Soviet Union and the U.S. have been talking to one another for decades without any problems from their governments. I think we'll see an inevitable opening up of communication, because there's no way for them to stop it. You can put a microwave dish inside a home and still pick up signals. You don't need fancy, very expensive equipment to do that. 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