Something extraordinary happened between 1950 and 1962. Television

changed the world. Nine percent of the households in the United States had a television set in 1950.

By 1962, it was 90%.

Hey, it's Arove. And this is a special archived episode of A Kimbo.

This isn't a podcast actually about how television changed the world.

It's about how we've been fooled by the magic moment that television created

because that moment is over. The magic moment of television is actually a

byproduct of the electromagnetic spectrum and to talk about that we have to talk about the Hertz family.

Matilda Hertz, the youngest, who did pioneering work in the Raven and its behavior and eyesight.

Her uncle, Gustavts won a Nobel Prize. Her cousin Carl Hurts, not

to be confused with Carl Hurts, the stage magician, helped invent the inkjet printer and the sonogram.

But we're really talking about Matilda's dad, Heinrich Hurts, for whom the Hurts is named.

What Hurts demonstrated, what Maxwell theorized, is that light isn't just Roy G. Biv, red, yellow-green blue, indigo violet.

There are the gamma rays that turn Bruce Banner into the Incredible Hulk. I can't have a shoe high. First I can't stop it.

There are the X-rays.

There are the high frequency ways that lead us to radio and then television. Spectrum, it's all the same stuff.

Light at different frequencies enables us to communicate analog signals at long distances.

It enables us to use x-rays to see through your skin and scan a bone,

and it enabled television.

The thing is spectrum is scarce that in any given band of

the spectrum is only a little bit available for each use. CB Radio gets two dozen channels.

You could try to put more channels in the CB radio section of the spectrum.

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