Comments on: Friday Poll: We the ppl--imagining a digital 1776

Twitter, cell phones, Google Docs: which tool of the Digital Age would have had the greatest influence on the course of American history?

[philmmaker]

Why would anyone vote for Franklin inventing the Internet? If you're using Google Docs then the Internet already exists. Not to mention the fact that Ben Franklin would have been quite distracted from his work by all that access to yebuxomwench.com

[DWes]

All but #'s 3 and 4 could not happen until Franklin invented the internet. And I don't think an axe could take out a cell tower.

[mbrewthx]

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