INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE—SARNOFF 189 
pulse of the present and the “eye” of television that sees far into the 
future. 
The day may come when every person will have his own little radio 
station tucked away in his pocket, to hear and to communicate with 
his home or his office as he walks or rides along the street. 
We have much to learn about the microwaves, in which is wrapped 
up this new world of individualized radio. Tiny electron tubes may 
make it possible to design radio receivers and transmitters no larger 
than a fountain pen, a cigarette case, a billfold, or a lady’s powder 
box. Some day people may carry television screens on their wrists 
as they now carry watches. As the useful spectrum of radio ap- 
proaches the frontiers of light, the apparatus will become simpler 
and more compact. 
Today science is leading us out of a world in which radio has been 
blind. Tomorrow we shall have radio sight. By this I do not mean 
that we shall look only at pictures in motion that travel through the 
air. Radiovision will have many uses. It will serve wherever sight 
isneeded. For instance, it will be used to prevent collisions on high- 
ways and railroads, on sea lanes and on the airways of the world. 
Radio will be the new eye of transportation and commerce. Appli- 
cations of radio optics are unlimited. With radio ear and eye to 
guide them, the great stratoliners will be superhuman in their in- 
stincts of hearing and seeing as they speed through space with 
passengers and freight. Radio, which made the world a whispering 
gallery, will turn it into a world of mirrors. 
Radio’s great responsibilties do not stop there. A formidable task 
lies ahead for communications in the restoration of peace, in the re- 
construction of the world, in the reestablishment of international 
trade. 
If American industrial science is to play its destined role in the re- 
construction period, government should not unduly restrict private 
enterprise or enter into competition with industry. On the other 
hand, it is of no avail for industry merely to point to the dangers of 
governmental restraints. Industry must give evidence of leadership 
by presenting practical alternatives. 
The day of pioneering in America has not ended. Trail blazing 
now calls for joint effort by government, labor, and industry. Their 
authority, experience, and vision must fuse harmoniously to achieve 
success. The same spirit of give-and-take must prevail in industrial 
statesmanship as in national and international statesmanship. There 
must be but one goal—the welfare of the people and the Nation. 
Industrial statesmanship can accomplish more than political states- 
manship in solving the postwar problems of employment, mass pro- 
duction, prosperity, and the continued uplift of the American standard 
