A radio is built to catch some of the electromagnetic energy
sailing past its
antenna, and use that small trace of energy to control electric
circuits in the
radio, in order to create a much more powerful copy of the
electromagnetic
waves that it caught. When that's been done inside the radio,
it'll eventually
use the powerful copy to wiggle the paper cone of a speaker or
the diaphragms
in a pair of earbuds, in order to convert some of the electrical
energy into sound
energy that can be detected by human ears.
By changing just one step at the end of the process, the
powerful copy can be
used to manipulate the motion of the spot on a fluorescent, LCD,
or plasma
screen, in order to convert some of the electrical energy into
light energy that
can be detected by human eyes.