Clarke recalls a curious experiment from the 1970s: using satellite television for educating the superstitious people of India.
According to the data in Locus1 and Clarke's notes in The View from Serendip, this piece consists of a speech delivered to State Department on 20 August 1971 (aka INTELSAT address or ''The United States of Earth'') plus an article also known as ''Schoolmaster Satellite'' but which usually appears without title. The essay, the whole of it presumably, was first published in London Daily Telegraph from December 17, 1971.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1977 |
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The View from Serendip | Random House | Nonfiction | 105 |
| 1978 |
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The View from Serendip | Victor Gollancz | Nonfiction | 105 |
| April 1978 |
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The View from Serendip | Random House / SFBC | Nonfiction | 93 |
| September 1978 |
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The View from Serendip | Del Rey / Ballantine | Nonfiction | 96 |
| 1979 |
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The View from Serendip | Pan Books | Nonfiction | 96 |
| 1983 | The View from Serendip | Pan Books | Nonfiction | 96 | |
| June 1992 |
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How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village | Gollancz | Nonfiction | 206 |
| 1999 |
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Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened | Voyager | Nonfiction | 283 |
| August 1999 |
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Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998 | St. Martin's Press | Nonfiction | 283 |