August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
5h 53m
English
The true scarce commodity is increasingly human attention.
—SATYA NADELLA,Chief executive officer, Microsoft
ONE HOT AND humid evening in late August 1922 a sound wave coursed through the New York City sky. Only those with a radio console tuned to 660 AM could hear the male voice, speaking in a “you’d-better-not-miss-this” tone, which traveled those airwaves.
The station was not WFAN Sports Radio, “The FAN,” which currently inhabits that frequency, where on-air hosts spend hours talking about the failures of the Jets and the Knicks. This station, whose call letters were WEAF, pumped out a steady stream of talk, news, and cultural tidbits interspersed with jazz and swing—the popular music ...
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