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To: samtheman

None of the technology you listed destroyed basic human interaction.


11 posted on 08/08/2015 4:25:24 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

The technologies I listed all had their detractors claiming that mankind or civilization was grievously harmed by the innovations of the day.

If it walks like a Luddite, talks like a Luddite...


12 posted on 08/08/2015 4:30:03 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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I dumped my cellphone in April. Fed up with T-Mobil cutting off my service every other month cuz their system can’t auto-bill pay to an out-of-date plan. I liked my plan and it was a good one so they got rid of it but I was able to keep mine. So they used the auto-cutoff strategy and a $20 reinstatement charge to gouge money for it. Over several years I calculated I’d pay’d over $400 in ‘re-connection- fees. Whenever they called they’d say they’d remedied it and I would be refunded the $20. They never did, not once.

So I’m going w/o cellphone for a while. Until I recoup what was lost to T-Mobil. It just takes a little planning ahead and I can’t take the kids out in the boat but they like the Waverunner better.


46 posted on 08/08/2015 5:46:03 AM PDT by Justa
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To: central_va

“None of the technology you listed destroyed basic human interaction.”

It wasn’t the cell phone, it was the fax machine.


123 posted on 08/09/2015 6:01:02 PM PDT by TexasGator
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