I recently read that the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams, is apparently tweeting from the grave. This is a nice use of technology to try to get younger people interested in history, but I’m not sure that it’ll be that effective. If people generally aren’t interested in comments about the weather, they’re probably not going to be interested in comments about the weather from two hundred years ago. But who knows?
Seeing the story reminded me of one of my favourite quotes by his father, John Adams… » [Expand post] [Permalink]