Radio

While we were learning about radios, we learned that they were used as point to point communication for a while, and that was something that stood out to me. Radios were used, but they weren't being used to their full potential. As we talked about later in the lecture, radios became immensely popular, reaching huge audiences. It's strange to think that something can go from being used to talk to one person to talking to millions. This makes me wonder, how different would our world be if radios had never been treated as mass communication? If people had just continued using radios as walkie talkies, and nobody had realized that you could reach mass audiences with this technology, what would our world look like today? It's also interesting to me that people were using radio that way for years. If it was possible for people to look past the full potential of the radio, then maybe there's technology today that is being misused, or it isn't being used to its full potential.