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Martin Delaney on Playing Unsung Tech Visionary Robert Ryan in ‘The Man Who Saved the Internet With a Sunflower’: ‘It’s an Icarus Story’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Actor Martin Delaney has stepped into the shoes of a tech visionary in the new film 'The Man Who Saved the Internet With a Sunflower.'
It focuses on Ryan’s development of the “pizza box” modem, which revolutionized internet access by offering faster speeds at half the price of competitors. This innovation allowed struggling internet service providers to stay afloat and ultimately led to Ascend’s meteoric rise in the tech industry, culminating in its sale to Lucent Technologies for $24 billion in 1999. He appeared in Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers” and had a role in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty.” More recently, Delaney was part of the cast of “Catch-22,” the miniseries adaptation of Joseph Heller’s novel, directed by George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Ellen Kuras.
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