The opportunity which electronic communication technology
provides for more speedy and thorough consultation among the friends is highly
significant. Without doubt, it represents another manifestation of a
development eagerly anticipated by the Guardian when he foresaw the creation of
"a mechanism of world intercommunication ... embracing the whole planet,
freed from national hindrances and restrictions, and functioning with marvellous
swiftness and perfect regularity".
- The Universal House of Justice (From a
letter dated 19 May 1995, written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice
to an individual believer; compilation: ‘Science and Technology’, compiled by
Research Department of the Universal House of Justice and attached to a
Memorandum from the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice,
dated 13-August 1997)
