The history of communication technology has had a profound impact on our world. In the modern economy, it’s no surprise that the telecommunications industry is responsible for $1.88 trillion dollars in worldwide GDP1. The three largest? They are worth a whopping $701.31 billion dollars.
The explosive advancements in technology over the last 100 years of the history of communications technology were largely crafted by the hands of engineers, history’s true agents of change. Through the obsessive nature that only a true artist knows, engineers changed the modern history of communication technology and ushered us into the future–a future they will be relied on to sculpt again.
