Announcer next, q a with former chief economist of the fcc, thomas hazlett. Brian tom hazlett, why did you write the book the political spectrum . Tom there is a great set of stories, unknown to most people about how we got into the age of wireless. Wireless seems like a bit of magic. It has always seemed that way. We had 100 years ago a Supreme Court chief justice say he did not want to get any radio cases because he did not want to have to dive into the law there. The law of the occult. So, this seems offputting to a lot of people. The way we allocate radio spectrum come and how we make Resources Available to the Wireless World we are in today, is fascinating, and there is a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio act. Primary actor Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce through those rules, 90 years ago, still govern the way we actually allow resources to be used in our economy today. It is tremendously important, fundamental to innovation, to technological progress, t
Operated before us. You write it is between letter writing and conversation was blurred by the custom of dictating outgoing letters to describes and having incoming letters read aloud to them. Indeed, you would have a describe and a messenger bringing them to friends and they were capable of reading and writing. They got more done back then. The reason week we can do social media is because it is fast and cheap to deliver image. And for the romans they had slavery and they were able to have a social eco system where they passed mej messages to each other. What were the wax tablets you talked about . They had devices that looked like like ipads. You might use a wax tablet and you would scratch the message or a describe scribe would do it and the recipient would bring it back to you. Cicero refers to this as roman texting. It was a note pad as well and people used them to learn to write. They are the same size as the ipad. And dollar there was a lot of examples of people depicted holding
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