<p><span class="deck">It took a decade of effort, heart-breaking disappointments, and the largest ship afloat before Cyrus Field could lay a successful cable across the Atlantic</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> When did we start saying it? And why?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Despite all the recent talk, governments will never be much good at fostering new technologies.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The telegraph was an even more dramatic innovation in its day than the Internet</span></p>
