What telly will bring tomorrow

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34097, 8 March 1976, Page 4

What telly will bring tomorrow

| In the final of "The World jof Television” tomorrow night, the writer-producer, 'Peter Battv, looks at the (future of television. The plethora of technical innovations on the horizon (mean-, that bustne-smen mav not have to move out of I their armchairs to communijcate to the world bv \ ideophone the gasman mav not i have to call to read the meter and doctor* mat not ineed to leave their surgeries ito check on patients 1 Other developments mi elude the monitoring of hospital patient* by television [on a “total-sv stem” linked to ia central data control Cable television tn the (United Stall’s and Canada ■ will also be looked at. along I with the various information ■ services provided there The I time when viewers can dial iup the latest movie or last night’s programme that they missed is not far away. | I’rittlish prelate A northern Greek bishop (has protested about the inaked statue of the >ea god (Poseidon in front of the education ministry in Athens In (a letter to his diocese yes’er iday. Metropolitan Augustinos of Florina said: “We should ■be ashamed of our pagan [ancestors." The statue’s only ("clothing” is a trident. lAugustinos, known as the ("prudish prelate,” has been camaigning against the I slackening of moral standards | for the last two years He : recently forbade ’he priests |of his diocese to drive cars as it diverted their attention. I —At hens.