Cell Phone Technology Should Have Been Introduced After WWII

How a 40 year head start got botched and what it teaches us

Erik Brown
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
8 min readMay 30, 2020

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Photo by Eirik Solheim on Unsplash

On random date in 1945, a U.S. government official announced a new startling technology to a smaller newspaper during an interview. The reveal had nothing to do with nuclear energy or weapons, as you might think. The official was J.K. Jett of the Federal…

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