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Friendly reminder the first mobile phone was invented between 1954 and 1957 by Soviet scientist Leonid Kupriyanovich.

It was the basis for the world's first 0G mobile network, "Altai", which was built in 1963 and available in large cities all across the USSR by 1965. It is still in use to this day.

In the 70s and 80s emergent satellite technology revolutionized mobile communication and forever changed the world as we know it. The first satellite, "Sputnik", was designed, manufactured, and launched in the USSR in 1957.

My phone was manufactured in China, and connects to a 5G mobile network running exclusively on Chinese equipment despite the fact it presents a known national security threat because Western manufacturers can't even replicate the technology.

Capitalism only exists in the 21st century because American capitalists got rich enough selling toaster ovens and clunkmobiles to a WW2 devastated Western Europe to fund a ridiculous war machine over-powered enough to spread mayhem throughout the world as a means to an end of propping up its bloated corpse for a little while. That system is falling apart now and will collapse in on itself before the end of this century. It's already falling behind.