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SUPER TITLE OVER STAR FIEL D
"The vision is now . . . "
MUSIC: MAIN THEME
NARRATOR: Whatever else we learn about that astounding and unpredictable human faculty we call "imagination" . . .
. . . one characteristic stands out that requires our attention.
It can be described with one word . . .
GRAPHIC: TYPICAL DICTIONARY DEFINITION
ac-tion (ak'shen) n.
The energy and force required to influence events and produce change.
GRAPHIC: ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL This inventor's concept of a telephone never made a single call.
GRAPHIC: JONAS SALK This doctor's dream of a polio vaccine never saved a single child.
GRAPHIC: BILL GATES And this entrepreneur's idea for computer software never ran a single PC.
Concepts, dreams and ideas don't make the cut. In each and every case...action was required before theory became reality.
Before moving ahead I have an unpleasant observation to make...
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