I guess we could call this Twitter Thursday...
I think that a lot of times we forget that the "Founding Fathers" were real people. they were also hanging out on the edge of technology for their time.
Thomas Jefferson could have REALLY used a Kindle. The guy was a reading machine. Not to mention that he was a genius...
George Washington was a gifted leader and he wasn't afraid to employ battlefield technology as he found it. He recognized that the training that his soldiers could get from Baron von Steuben was beyond what he could provide... and the battle style of Francis Marion could add power to his army.
What can one say about Ben Franklin? He was a technology freak! Printing was probably what he was most known for, but his Pony Express concept rocked. Letters could be posted and replied to in the same day. The modern post office doesn't touch what he was doing between Boston and Philadelphia in 1776... Ofc ourse, there are numerous inventions and technologies he employed. He would be an iPad guy...
All of them were into communications, and I would bet that they would be sporting iPhones and Androids if they were alive today.
As I study our founding fathers, I get more and more impressed with them.
We'll skip over the inaccuracies in the tweets (Washington didn't actually wear a wig, apparently), and focus on the guys.
Can you see the founders of this country sitting around a table in a pub, knocking back a few beers and coming up with the ideas that would eventually form the basis of this country?
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More than likely they were drinking Ale, but yes, I can imagine a jam session! Brilliance feeding off of brilliance!
I saw this same gag for Facebook. If I could find it I would shoot you a link. Well not exactly the same, but great people in history on Facebook.