Weeknote #4—Our North Star
Someone sent me the following quote from Nikola Tesla, who in 1926 was so prescient about the future of technology and communication that it gave me chills:
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”
Nikola sums up our North Star at Bellow perfectly. As far as we’ve come in closing the distance, space, time and technology gaps in our communications, we still have plenty of room for improvement. Particularly, we believe the world is lacking communication tools that let us see each other as human beings first and foremost. That’s what we’re building at Bellow!
