Mark R. Sullivan, San Francisco, president and director of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., said in an address Thusday night:
"Just what form the future telephone will take is, of course, pure speculation. Here is my prophecy:
"In its final development, the telephone will be carried about by the individual, perhaps as we carry a watch today. It probably will require no dial or equivalent, and I think the users will be able to see each other, if they want, as they talk.
'Who knows but what it may actually translate from one language to another?"
Mark Twain predicted a kind of social media over electronic communication with his “telelectroscope.” He wrote some science fiction, of course, and envisioned that in one of them. "From The London Times of 1904". The story is about a murder suspect who gets cleared of a crime thanks to a livestream webcam of a festival in China.