I think that Ben Franklin would have been delighted by this list. He would have loved modern visual thinking and writing environments. The device would have been powered by a lightning bolt hitting a kite. He could save all of his thousands of creative ideas in a way that he could easily find them again. And, he could get the weather forecast for Paris and the travel times on various kinds of wind-powered boats. Not that his French was bad, but an auto-translation method for Italian, Hungarian, and German might have been invaluable. And he would have reveled in the selection of books available for every topic and perhaps contributed an almanac or 50 himself.

And someone who helped found and govern the most religiously tolerant city of his time probably would have thought Twitter was pretty cool too.