The television screens of the next century will be linked up to an emerging world telecommunications grid.

下个世纪的电视屏幕将与一种新兴的世界电信网格相连。

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At this very moment, through the wonder of telecommunications, more people are seeing and hearing what we say than on any other such occasion in the whole history of the world.

就在这个时刻，通过电讯的奇迹，看到和听到我们讲话的人比在整个世界历史上任何其他这样的场合都要多。

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But in the years since, a series of innovations have transformed not only the world of telecommunications but also the way we live, work and play.

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This is one reason international bodies such as the United Nations hold occasional global forums like the Internet Governance Forum or the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Conference on International Telecommunications to talk about coordinated strategies to keep traffic flowing on our global highway.

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But in the world of modern telecommunications, reasonable expectations mean about as much as a bullfrog in a blender.

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