AUSSAT is a further link in a worldwide revolution which is occurring in information technology. This new technology includes communication satellites, fibre optics, and the silicon chip, and their use in combination to reduce the ‘tyrannies of distance’, the rigidities of time scheduling, and the tedium of manual processing of information and materials.
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