Come here – I want to see you

Come here – I want to see you

From Turn the Page by Turn the Page

March 5, 2026 · 2 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the historical significance of the first telephone call and draws parallels to biblical prophecies about a future world without suffering.

On 10 th  March 1876 Alexander Graham Bell uttered the immortal words, ‘Mr Watson – come here – I want to see you’. It was the first telephone call ever made. This was cutting edge technology that would change the world forever. It was the Victorian age when human progress seemed unstoppable, and people were dreaming dreams about what the future might look like. Hard on the heels of the telephone came dreams of the telectroscope, a device that could send both sound and pictures across vast distances. It would be decades before it became reality, but the dream was there. In a similar way the Bible encourages us to dream dreams about a future world that seems fantastical. In the Old Testament Isaiah prophesies, ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him’. The last book of the Bible fills in some of the blanks, describing this new world as one without death, mourning, crying or pain.  To us, such a future might seem as incredible as one with a telectroscope did to the Victorians. They would be amazed at the world we now inhabit and one day so will we. The post Come here – I want to see you appeared…

People in this episode

Host: Turn the Page

Topics covered

  • technology
  • dreams
  • future
  • Christianity
  • prophecy
  • hope

Keywords

  • telephone
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Isaiah
  • prophecy
  • future world
  • Christianity
  • telectroscope

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Bible, Old Testament, Isaiah, last book of the Bible

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