I always loved the semi-steampunk idea of what-if when radio was born that it was not immediately suborned to regulations borne out of WWI fears and instead became a hands-on collaborative web/net of audio communication - and early interwebs where the participants would have figured out intuitively how to manage the traffic into our ears without the interventions of weaponizing the medium via advertisements and top-down control.
Oh the other worlds we coulda woulda shoulda had.
sigh
