the network: the battle for the airwaves and the birth of the communications age" 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 text messages to

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