As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to...

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world--in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing world.