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By Yucatan Times on December 17, 2020
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It’s easy to think that the modern era in communication began in the 1990s with the birth of the Internet.
But we actually have to go back further to 1895 and the discovery that intelligible signals could travel through the “air” without a wired connection.
A hundred years before Facebook and Microsoft, Google and Apple, an Irish-Italian precursor laid the foundation for today’s wireless, mobile communication culture. Like today’s tech moguls, Guglielmo Marconi was heavily contested by some of his rivals. Like them, he rose above the fray by sheer determination, as well as talent, luck and vision. But more than any of today’s icons more than Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest Marconi was uniquely at the center of the communication revolution of his time.