Happy Birthday Saint-Ex
Today in 1900, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born. He is best known for writing The Little Prince. A few years ago I came across the following quote by him, and it comes to mind whenever I hear of a new social networking/blogging/instant messaging/whatever service:
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures -- in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."
-- Terre des Hommes (translated into English as Wind, Sand, and Stars) (1939)
We have a lot of tools bringing a lot of people together these days. It is quite the adventure seeing what accomplishments will come of it.
