I got this old book as a combo Birthday/Father’s Day present. “Radio: Miracle of the 20th Century,” was published in 1922, at the advent of the “modern era” of radio. Scanned in a few of the pictures and cover so others (as in you) could check it out. A couple of my favorite picts are the “first” car radio and the “portable” suitcase radio. It’s interesting to read the pages of this book and realize that the enthusiasm for radio in the ’20s is much like the fervor of the Internet and digital wireless technologies today. In its infancy, the early radio broadcaster, adopters and hobbyists saw radio and radio telephony as a technology to enable men to “talk through space to people miles away.” The excitement of radio and its promise would be the harbinger of a new world of learning, communication and utopian ideals. A good reminder to not always “drink the kool-aid” of the so-called illuminated ones expounding the latest new technology that will change the world and lead us into a new mystical land of pink bunnies and dancing rainbow ponies.

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