Celebrity Death of the Week

Vladimir Odoevsky (1803-1869)
Odoevsky was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist, and pedagogue who has recently been credited with having predicted "blogging" and the basic principles of the Internet. He also wrote tales for children and phantasmagoric stories for adults imbued with a vague mysticism reminiscent of Jakob Boehme.

Vladimir Odoevsky (Born August 13th, 1803 – Died March 11th, 1869)
(O.S. date of birth: August 1st, 1803 - date of death: February 27th, 1869 – O.S. means Old Style, the date on the Julian calendar in British Empire countries. The Gregorian calendar was adopted on the 14th of September 1752.)

Utopia
Recently, Odoevsky has been credited to have predicted blogging, and the basic principles of the Internet. In his unfinished utopian novel Year 4338, written in 1837 but not published until 1926, he mused: "Finally, today we received a household journal from the prime minister, where we, among others, were invited to a soiree. You need to know that in many houses, especially those well connected, such journals are published, having replaced regular correspondence. <...> The journals usually provide information about the hosts’ good or bad health, family news, various thoughts and comments, small inventions, as well as invitations; in case of a dinner invitation, also the menu. Besides, for communicating in emergency, friends' houses are connected by means of magnetic telegraphs that allow people who live far from each other to talk to each other."