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The Cable that Changed the World: How Instant Global Communication Began in 1858

The word wireless is going the way of computerized and portable, and for much the same reasons. We no longer regard wireless devices that require no physical connections to anything else as marvels, but as something close to necessities.

The Cable that Changed the World: How Instant Global Communication Began in 1858

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The word wireless is going the way of computerized and portable, and for much the same reasons.

We no longer regard wireless devices that require no physical connections to anything else as marvels, but as something close to necessities.

Our age, with its increasingly common assumptions that information just travels through the air, owes its existence […]

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The word wireless is going the way of computerized and portable, and for much the same reasons. We no longer regard wireless devices that require no physical connections to anything else as marvels, but as something close to necessities. Our age, with its increasingly common assumptions that information just travels through the air, owes its existence […]

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