Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Charles K. Kao
Born: November 4, 1933
Died: September 23, 2018 (aged 84)
Bio: Charles Kuen Kao was a Chinese-born Hong Kong, American and British electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications.
Known for:
- A Time And A Tide (2011)
- A choice fulfilled (1991)
- Optical Fiber Technology II (1981)








