Isn't
radio an underutilized medium for transmitting data at no cost to
consumers? Digital radio could transmit text data as well as sound,
or data for pictures and books as well as noise that can be
reconverted into music at some later time. Instead of regular am-fm
radios that immediately convert digital bits into sound, a new
technology should be mass produced that captures digital data from
radio waves and stores that in a device that can convert the data
into text files, images files, epub files and so forth.
It
would be good to be able to read books and newspapers via radio waves
on a personal device in remote locations. Radio can travel far, and
with the right technology free and subscription data could be
'downloaded' virtually anywhere on Earth as it is. Wouldn't
extra-terrestrials listening to Earth broadcasts in a few hundred
thousand years want book and other text as well as the noise of NPR?
Newspapers
and bookstores could transmit books on radio that could be decoded by
subscribers or those that have on-line store credits. Public domain
and free books could accelerate the distribution of e-books to the
underprivileged around the world. Radio receivers could store data
downloaded overnight when the radio is in just-receive and store data
mode.
It
seems as if there would be some potential for sales and public
service with digital data radio transmitter-receivers. While
conventional radio runs ads and notes sponsorship of wealth
management businesses, digital text radio could provide agricultural
and medical information to the starving and sick. Christians could
actually broadcast Bibles and evolutionists Machiavelli's 'The
Prince'.
