Wednesday, February 01, 2006
BUT WILL TEXT MESSAGING STILL BE AROUND IN 2151?
Nowadays Western Union makes its living charging folks for sending money, not for sending telegrams. So, after 145 years, it's decided to get out of the telegraphy biz altogether.
John, who has enjoyed the literary mayhem inspired by this technology, may be saddened by the news. But cheer up! Despite your doubts, there may be hope for the replacement technology of text messaging: text messaging poetry.
But then again, it's hard to top the very first telegram, which consisted of these four words: "What hath God wrought?"
John, who has enjoyed the literary mayhem inspired by this technology, may be saddened by the news. But cheer up! Despite your doubts, there may be hope for the replacement technology of text messaging: text messaging poetry.
But then again, it's hard to top the very first telegram, which consisted of these four words: "What hath God wrought?"
1 Comments:
This sucks. What a failure of marketing, what a lack of respect for the company's history.
