Posted on 25/07/08
Why we continue to chase the next new thing
OTTAWA -- Standing in an attic room in a house in Boston, Alexander Graham Bell made his first telephone call on March 10, 1876. Thomas A. Watson, his associate, took the call in an adjacent room. Less than 40 years later (January 25, 1915), calling from New York, Bell phoned Watson again - this time across 5,500 kilometres of phone line that stretched to San Francisco. By 1915, more than 30 per cent of American households had telephones. It took another 60 years to reach 90 per cent.
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