«Imagine if the air, only the air, could carry our voice, our thoughts: millions of words carried by invisible waves…». Thus, with Calvino-like levity, in the turmoil of his radio operator’s heart, a young Guglielmo Marconi turns to his petulant American cousin Daisy.
Marconi is describing the future of the world that he himself will be destined to design. She doesn’t understand but she complies, and, in love, she sighs. He, on the other hand, breathes the dream, stuff that evokes «Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish» (and right from the start it is made clear that Steve Jobs had a single, great teacher in Guglielmo).
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Thus, in the vision of the Nobel Prize described by the highly anticipated drama broadcast on Monday and Tuesday on Raiuno Marconi – The Man Who Connected the World (very effective direction by Lucio Pellegrini for Stand by Me) Italy begins to celebrate its hundredth anniversary from the birth of the “father of wireless telegraphy, inventor of the radio and pioneer of modern telecommunications”, as well as a myth, sometimes patriotic, sometimes patriotic, and a living advert for Italian ingenuity. Here you are.
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