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There's a charming book about a long-distance relationship between telegraph operators called Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. The writing itself isn't anythi
by Osmium 11y ago
There's a charming book about a long-distance relationship between telegraph operators called Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. The writing itself isn't anything special, but it is remarkably prescient.
Here's a particularly insightful quotation:
> ... we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future!
Note that this was published in 1879!
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_love_a_ta.php http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2013/07/wired_... [via Boing Boing]
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24353 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24353
- Chinjut 11y agoThe telephone had already been invented at that point, yeah? So the prediction was simply that telephones would become small and wireless. An accurate prediction, of course, but not a shocking one to venture.
- Osmium 11y agoPerhaps. Though I would say that we've become very used to things becoming "small and wireless" over the last several decades, so that it almost seems inevitable now, but I'm not sure that's always been the case.
- jessaustin 11y agoIn addition to the tech prediction, I'm impressed by the cultural one.