Television turns 100: From uniting nations to dividing feeds

Television turns 100: From uniting nations to dividing feeds

As television celebrates its centenary, the screen that once united the world now reflects a fractured, algorithm-driven society, writesPaul Budde.

WHENJohn Logie Baird(from the Logie Awards) transmitted the first recognisable television image in October 1925, he launched a technology that would shape the next century more profoundly than radio, newspapers or even the early internet.

For decades, television