Number 9, my favorite number

9.  Nikola Tesla predicted the smart phone in 1926:  "When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole.  We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.  Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone.  A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."

Thank you, Colleen, for sharing this in your post you entitled Cloud Nine or Number Nine?  Nine is my favorite number, and I love thinking about things like this, that Tesla could see (predict?) the things we have right now in our world.  And to top it off, Tesla is number 9 in your list of 13 things.  Cool!