I don't get what you mean with balloon/diplomats/bombs.
Yes, wireless (and wired) communications changed the way people using them communicated. But only a slight minority used them, for a very long time. Italy in 1987 was not exactly a third-world country, still some people (a minority) starting a new family in a new home did not bother to install a telephone for some months. I consider this fact as an element suggesting phone penetration was not 100% and I'm sure those without a telephone did not use wireless 2-way communications. Broadcast is not relevant to "the way people [...] talked together". Furthermore, telephone calls are (almost) always 1-on-1. The only many-to-many mass technologies are tables and the public Internet. [An italian radio broadcaster, Radio Radicale, in 1986 for one month connected directly its voicemail to the antenna. For one month, messages registered by callers were broadcast without moderation. Some callers started replying to other callers. I'd consider this mass, many-to-many, not table, not internet, but it was an exception.]
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