The now famous 1945 Wireless World article where Arthur C Clarke proposes the geo-stationary satellite for relaying of communications:
http://www.clarkefoundation.org/docs/ClarkeWirelessWorldArticle.pdf
Written back in 1945. His predictions though tentative came true. He did well to see the application as this was before anybody had got anything into orbit, let alone knew that that signals transmitted would propagate from space. One amusing part is where he jokes about now having a good use for the V2 rocket after the war.
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