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How Wireless Gadgets Came to Rule the World

863 views · Published 12 December 2017 · 2:33 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: Gizmodo · 2017 · Science & Technology

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If you’d asked any pedestrian in the 20th century if we would one day be able to sit in a coffee shop with a pocket computer and talk to anyone in the world, without plugging into anything, they’d call you crazy. If you mentioned that you could charge the phone by placing it on the table, they’d call you crazy. If you suggested that the communications were being sent to space and back down to Earth with lasers, they’d call the police. And yet, here we are.

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