"This is Tumblr’s moment. It’s almost equivalent to when Truman realized that he could address the nation directly on television to make a presidential address – here’s a new form of media to reach an audience."
- Gregory Galant, as quoted in For pols, Tumblr is trending - POLITICO.com (via rachelfershleiser)
(via jeremyjohnstone)
"12% of people have black and white dreams. Before color television the number was 75%."
The First Mobile Phone Call Was Made 40 Years Ago Today
The evolution of mobile devices from the first commercially available DynaTAC to the smartphones of today.
![NYC’s Pneumatic Tube Mail Network, c. 1897
Each tube could carry between 400 and 600 letters and traveled at 30-35 miles per hour. In its full glory, the pneumatic tubes covered a 27-mile route, connecting 23 post offices…. 95,000 letters were moved daily [and] it took 4 minutes to get from the General Post Office to Grand Central using a transverse tube that cut across Manhattan.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b2780ee852c3337bb59cca8f89f91d1/tumblr_mju2t1HRtv1qzsvqyo1_500.jpg)
NYC’s Pneumatic Tube Mail Network, c. 1897
Each tube could carry between 400 and 600 letters and traveled at 30-35 miles per hour. In its full glory, the pneumatic tubes covered a 27-mile route, connecting 23 post offices…. 95,000 letters were moved daily [and] it took 4 minutes to get from the General Post Office to Grand Central using a transverse tube that cut across Manhattan.
"I didn’t get into space or transportation or solar because I saw them as good [investment] opportunities. I saw them as places where something needed to be done."
- Elon Musk, SXSW keynote (via Wired.com)
"The disorientation everyone blames on “information overload” may in fact have less to do with the amount of data we are being asked to process than the number of simultaneous people we are being asked to be."
- (thenewinquiry via nathanjurgenson)
Commuter train in Bohn’s ‘Visions of the Future’ Ads, 1940s
America of the Future, c. 1910s-30s.
