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The Communications Research Centre of Canada was on hand at NAB to demonstrate a small variety of lab projects, with agency representatives hoping to make an impression on attendees, who will theoretically apply these concepts to actual products, with no licensing fee making its way back to the True North.
Whether he was truly able to make prophecies remains open to doubt, but no reader can come away from Mr Radzinsky's biography without a powerful impression of the charm and charisma of the semi-literate bearded peasant from Siberia.