Throughout human history, groundbreaking technologies have emerged as the defining voice of their generation, reshaping communication and, in turn, the political landscape. In the 1890s, Guglielmo Marconi demonstrated the feasibility of radio, which emerged as the definitive voice for the pre-war generation, heralding a new era in mass communication. By the 1940s, the spirited competition between San Francisco tinkerer Philo Farnsworth and the team at RCA produced live television, which captured the cultural consciousness of the baby-boom generation, who were raised in front of the small…
