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
We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd
We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd
We have a Supreme Court justice say he didnt want to get any radio cases. This seems very offputting but it turns out that the way we allocate radio spectrum, how we make Resources Available for the Wireless World were in to today is fascinating. And theres a political structure that was crafted in the 1927 radio acted everything is changing to wireless. But we have a lot of problems still with some of the very igid traditional oldfashioned into place in previous generations were trying to break away. Theres been a pattern of liberalization thats been extremely successful but we have a long way to go and so into place in me forth. Previous generations were these radio signals can still travel. Of course they can be used for communications. And radio transmit, radio receive. And we put stuff together all of a sudden youre in the Wireless World that kids grow up with. They think thats just part of society to pull out the phone nd text or snap. The first station in pittsburgh november 2nd
The author is scott wooley. Mr. Wooley, looking back a hundred years ago, what was considered high tech then . Guest the wireless age has been around for about a decade and a half but there was only one app which was texting. There was before am radio as we know it now there was the wireless telegraph. By 1960 it had been around but struggled to make itself proven as a Real Wireless technology with the exception of the sinking of the titanic in 1912 so just over a hundred years ago. That is what brought Wireless Technology to the public conscious and made people consciousness and realize this is an important technology. Host what did the sinking of the titanic have to do with the Technology Development . Guest there were a hundred Wireless Technologies companies that spread up but the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was the dominant wireless company. Even it not been successful. It tried to make a business of sending messages across the atlantic never succeeded and got long sending