“Twenty years ago is considered very recent?”
To those of us who were born during WWII it is very recent indeed.
“No telex, no fax?”
For home phone service in the days of Southern Bell there was nothing but voice. I saw my first fax machine on the USS Saratoga and repaired it in 1964 but it was many years later before fax machines were used in business offices, let alone homes. Telex was around long ago but that has nothing to do with what that article was about, you didn’t see telex in homes or automobiles.
“A young person actually told you that? Sorry that sounds
made up.”
Can’t help how it sounds to you but yes, more than one young person has actually told me that and I have heard it said many times about younger people by people fifty or older who have observed what passes for communication these days.
You can believe what you want to, I don’t really care but if you think there is not a huge difference between the phone service of even twenty or thirty years ago and today when many people almost never use the phone for voice communication you are very mistaken and there is almost no comparison between today and fifty years ago. I actually agree with you that there was a lot of overstatement in that article but there is something going on which prompted someone to write that article. Are you old enough to have any memory of the days before cell phones? Do you know what the term “party line” refers to?
I took a break and pondered this, and can see your point.
I don’t totally agree but I do see your point. I just
don’t think all of that is any big deal.
“To those of us who were born during WWII it is very recent indeed.”
The first time I voted was for Reagen.
While pondering this I came to the conclusion that even if
it were possible for cell phones to be a danger to
“Humankind” (definition, human beings collectively; the human race.)
then that danger would be offset simply by the
access of 911 and the lives that alone has saved. Your getting
up there, we both are, a cell phone just might save our
lives.
I wonder how many people who 'dial' someone have actually used phones with a dial on them?