I start this post by pointing out that many of the posts (if not all) over the past several months have been in the “COMM-7970 Social Media” category on my blog as they were a part of the requirements for a graduate class on social media that I have been taking. This post, however, is not in that category, as the requirements of the class have been fulfilled, but I hope to make it part of a continuing trend. I want to keep writing on social media, and I hope my readers will hold me to that.
Now, on to the actual post. I wanted to touch on the subject of mobile messaging again, and @kennysmith happen to direct me through a tweet to a great inspiration for a quick post on the subject: Nikola Tesla’s predicted mobile messaging in a 1909 issue of Popular Mechanics (link to GearLog.com post).
Let me repeat that previous statement: Nikola Tesla, the great pioneer in electrical engineering and wireless communication, visionary inspiration in both robotics and countless science fiction mainstays, predicted the rise of mobile messaging just over a century ago.
Jamie Lendino of GearLog.com writes:
Tesla “imagined such a hand-held device would be simple to use and that, one day, everyone in the world would communicate to friends using it,” and that this “would usher in a new era of technology.”
I have to wonder what Tesla would think of Twitter, Facebook, and iTunes.
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