For my first post I thought it would be appropriate to blog about blogging. A week or so ago I was laying on the couch and it hit me: Orson Scott Card is a genius. He predicted blogging as a form of media that would be quite influential. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card was published in 1985, a great year for the world. A lot of great things happened that year. However, that year was essentially void of the internet, and certainly lacking blogs. In fact, Enders Game has three specific preditions that I thought were incredibly prophetic.
First, he predicted the internet. A mass form of communication that linked households throughout the world. Second, Peter and Valentine start writing articles on public pages sharing their ideas, opinions, and so forth, so similar to blogging its scary. Demosthenes (Valentine) and Locke (Peter) were essentially bloggers. Finally, Card predicted the use of tablets. Read the description of their computers again, it sounds exactly like an iPad.
So in conclusion, Orson Scott Card, the genius writer that he is, predicted the use of (1) the internet, (2) blogging as a form of journalism and political movement, and (3) the overwhelming use of tablet computers. Pretty interesting, isn't it.
Thank you for reading, another post will come soon. Please share this blog with as many people as you would like. And feel free to leave your comments and opinions.
an 'average' Joe
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