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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Wireless communication: then and now


As everyone knows Marconi played the central role in the development of wireless communication, and when he died in 1937 Mussolini ordered a state funeral for him.  Hitler, who made radios more affordable to the German people after he came to power in 1933, sent the largest wreath for Marconi’s hearse, complete with Nazi swastika.

Today, since 2006, we have Twitter, and chief among its over 100 million users is Donald Trump whose every putative thought is readily communicated to the world.  Similarly, Trump would not wield as much authority over the Republican Party and in the U.S.A. had it not been for his obsessive twittering, which makes his “base” feel connected to its leader.


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