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Always Connected

From Marconi to 5G: The Story of the Wireless WorldBy Anita S. Sunde

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Always Connected

Length4h 58m

About this audiobook

Five billion people use a mobile phone. That number exceeds the population with access to clean water. It exceeds the number with access to electricity. Nobody planned this. It happened because a series of ideas, developed over more than a century, converged into a technology so useful and so affordable that billions of people chose it as the first piece of modern infrastructure they would own.  Always Connected  tells the story of how that happened — from James Clerk Maxwell’s equations in the 1860s to the 5G networks and satellite constellations. It is the story of engineers trying to solve small problems who ended up changing everything, of entrepreneurs who bet on technologies nobody yet believed in, and of governments that discovered that communications infrastructure is power. Written to be read rather than studied, this is popular history for anyone who has ever wondered how the invisible technology they depend on every hour of every day actually came to exist.

Audiobook details

GenreHistory, Technology

Length4 hrs 58 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMay 2, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction

134G: Everyone, Always, Everywhere

2Prologue

14Part Three

3Part One

15Towers

4Waves

16Spectrum

5Radio Goes to War

17Part Four

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6The Cellular Idea

185G: The Network That Is Not About Phones

7The Brick

19Huawei and the Technology Cold War

8Part Two

20The Sky Joins the Network

91G: The Telephone Leaves Home

21The Network and Power

102G: The World Goes Digital

22Appendix

113G: The Internet in Your Pocket (Almost)

23Endnote

12The Phone That Changed Everything

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