= Telecommunication
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Communicating at a distance, from <Greek (language)> "tele" for distance!
A very cool thing about <telecommunication> is, besides how incredibly fast it advanced (in this sense it is no cooler than <integrated circuit> development), how much <physics> and <information theory> is involved in it. Applications of telecommunication implementation spill over to other fields, e.g. some proposed <quantum computing> approaches are remarkably related to telecommunication technology, e.g. <microwaves> and <silicon photonics>.
This understanding made <Ciro Santilli> wish he had opted for telecommunication engineering <Ciro Santilli's undergrad studies at the University of São Paulo>[when he was back in school in Brazil]. For some incomprehensible reason, telecommunications was the least competitive specialization in the electric engineering department at the time, behind even power electronics. This goes to show both how completely unrelated to reality university is, and how completely outdated Brazil is/was. Sad stuff.