Alexander Graham Bell

[Riverkilt]

I remember well when my father first told me there would be wireless phones you could carry with you in a briefcase.

I wonder how old Alex Bell would have reacted if he could have seen into the future. Would he be ranting against cell phones in restaurants, movie theaters, people walking alone down the street talking to themselves with the phone not visible under their hair.

The later still startles me...way too many years working psychiatric crisis units...always think, "Oh no, a loose psychiatric patient..."

Ron

[Galician]

Living in New York City, one didn't have to be associated with a psychiatric facilty to think that, Ron.

[davedove]

people walking alone down the street talking to themselves with the phone not visible under their hair.

I just kind of get the feeling that I'm stuck in the middle of a sci-fi film and I don't know how I got here.

[macwilkin]

AGB also immigrated to Canada...

T.

[Bugbear]

I remember well when my father first told me there would be wireless phones you could carry with you in a briefcase.

I wonder how old Alex Bell would have reacted if he could have seen into the future. Would he be ranting against cell phones in restaurants, movie theaters, people walking alone down the street talking to themselves with the phone not visible under their hair.

The later still startles me...way too many years working psychiatric crisis units...always think, "Oh no, a loose psychiatric patient..."

Ron

Oddly enough Ron, he did come up with a wireless phone that he called the photophone. It didn't work too well because he was using light instead of say radio waves to transmit sound... Kind of like the optical phone lines we have now. He came up with a bunch of weird stuff that never caught on so well...

and Hey! I resent that "Oh no, a loose psychiatric patient..."