Marconi: The Man Who Networked the WorldA little over a century ago, the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of Hertzian waves, as radio waves were initially known, ships could now make contact with other ships (saving lives, such as on the doomed S. S. Titanic); financial markets could coordinate with other financial markets, establishing the