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| [00:00.00] | The Nobel Foundation said the work of all three of this year's physics laureates |
| [00:03.24] | was groundbreaking. |
| [00:04.15] | Without their research, |
| [00:05.74] | modern communications technology |
| [00:07.11] | including digital cameras and the internet might not exist. |
| [00:09.87] | Charles Kao was born in Shanghai |
| [00:12.41] | but worked in Britain |
| [00:13.13] | where in 1966 he developed the idea of transmitting light |
| [00:16.33] | over long distances using optical glass fibres. |
| [00:19.08] | Today these fibre cables carry much of the world's data |
| [00:21.94] | and telephony traffic. |
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