{"id":72525,"date":"2017-09-14T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=72525"},"modified":"2017-09-14T12:38:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T19:38:01","slug":"unexpected-futurist-mark-twain-tesla-and-a-worldwide-visual-telephone-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/unexpected-futurist-mark-twain-tesla-and-a-worldwide-visual-telephone-system","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Futurist: Mark Twain, Tesla, and a Worldwide Visual Telephone System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvKeZ4GN5tg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When one thinks of Mark Twain, one thinks of folksy wit, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and the Mississippi River. Twain\u2019s work immortalized the rapidly changing United States of the 1800s. But in his personal life, Twain often preferred the future to nostalgia, supporting women\u2019s suffrage and civil rights, and frequently being contemptuous of what he considered to be the absurd and corrupt values of the past. He harbored a long running fascination with technology and new gadgets, and frequently invested in the latter \u2014 albeit with spotty success, at best. But Twain cemented his becoming an honorary futurist via his long friendship with inventor and Mad-scientist archetype Nikola Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on social media:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/galacticpa\">Twitter<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/GalacticPublicArchives\">Facebook<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/galacticpublicarchives\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one thinks of Mark Twain, one thinks of folksy wit, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and the Mississippi River. Twain\u2019s work immortalized the rapidly changing United States of the 1800s. But in his personal life, Twain often preferred the future to nostalgia, supporting women\u2019s suffrage and civil rights, and frequently being contemptuous of what he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1509,172,20,418,42,1512,24],"tags":[182,2133,2745,1753,704,422,2864,2866,2152,222,1652,2865,689],"class_list":["post-72525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-entertainment","category-fun","category-futurism","category-internet","category-media-arts","category-mobile-phones","category-rants","tag-future","tag-futurism","tag-futurist","tag-gpa","tag-history","tag-literature","tag-mark-twain","tag-nikola-tesla","tag-science","tag-technology","tag-tesla","tag-twain","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72530,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72525\/revisions\/72530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}