These "mentalists," born from vaudeville, circuses, sideshows, and the Spiritualist and New Thought movements of the mid-late 19th century, used the language of wireless technology to explain their ability to see the past, present, and future. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age.
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