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== ubiquity of transceivers ==

There are literally ''tens of billions'' of receivers capable of ~~transmitting~~ audio signals. This compares quite favourably to the number of [[Bluetooth]] devices. It would take an overwhelming argument for the absolute necessity of text or video signals to make a service that required them for [[Consumerium buying signal]] desirable. Historically, one could note that [[industrial radio]] was quite feasible and in wide use before the 1920s, while [[commercial radio]] was in wide use in the 1930s. However, the addition of [[video]] for [[television]] did not occur in [[developed nation]]s until the 1950s, and the further addition of point-to-point still [[image]] and [[text]] communication wasn't possible until [[fax]] and [[email]] in the 1980s. And even by the 1990s it was not common to have devices capable of a wide variety of signals.

There are literally ''tens of billions'' of receivers capable of receiving audio signals, and almost as many (e.g. all [[telephone]]s) capable of also transmitting. This compares quite favourably to the number of [[Bluetooth]] devices. It would take an overwhelming argument for the absolute necessity of text or video signals to make a service that required them for [[Consumerium buying signal]] desirable. Historically, one could note that [[industrial radio]] was quite feasible and in wide use before the 1920s, while [[commercial radio]] was in wide use in the 1930s. However, the addition of [[video]] for [[television]] did not occur in [[developed nation]]s until the 1950s, and the further addition of point-to-point still [[image]] and [[text]] communication wasn't possible until [[fax]] and [[email]] in the 1980s. And even by the 1990s it was not common to have devices capable of a wide variety of signals.

== central role in culture ==