i just love it that they made like 20.000 of these and when one turned out to be correct it’s just so correct it makes you resonate with a random dead guy from a hundred years ago
I always love small misconceptions about technology that didn’t exist yet. In this case: no chance of silencing or turning off the device. Cracks me up!
There’s an Everett True energy about this
All that’s missing is him just straight up punching the guy into next week.
I’ve never heard of that guy. Mind to enlighten me?
The star of some old comics, characterized by being a violent choleric who deals with annoying people. Check out !truecomics@midwest.social.
school needs to spend a couple lessons teaching you the notification settings on your phone, these days you can do quite advanced things without extra apps, like setting the phone to vibrate (except for specific people and apps) during specific calendar events, or only allowing specific notifications from an app.
This assumes you are popular enough to be bothered with
Scammers have enteted the
chatcall log
Reminder that Socrates was said to have hated books because they corrupted the youth, weakening students’ faculties by removing the need to memorise information.
Every single generation since records have existed thought the new tech was ruining us.
Now get off my fucking lawn.
We also have a lot more knowledge than we used to. Socrates didn’t have to remember about molecular metabolization pathways or the energy transition of a turbium atom, or what the arbitrary name has been given to a medium coffee at Starbucks.
Could socrates predict invention of encyclopedia?
Ancient philosphy vs some madlad going “Ah yes today I will write down EVERYTHING.”cut to parchment with the word “EVERYTHING” written on it in a fancy font
Ah but new tech always has been ruining us
Those damn kids and their newfangled pointy rocks. Back in my day, if you needed your rock to do more damage, you just got a bigger one!
While the concert and wedding are events where you should turn off your ringer, it’s certainly true that phones can ring at inconvenient times. A big enough problem to outweigh the benefit of being able to check in, find people, call for help, etc. from nearly anywhere? Absolutely not, but it’s still a pretty accurate prediction.
If anything reality is better off: many people do know various ways to keep their phones quiet but more importantly we use phones for much more than talking. Every time someone texts, so there is no ring, that might have been a call back then
Completely unrealistic, nobody will keep there ringer on
It’s weird but at one point in the last 10 years, society just decided that everyone uses vibrate now.
Not boomers, they love the constant dings and obnoxious ringtones to be as loud as possible.
don’t forget the type sounds
Let’s be honest with this one. Most are probably just too lazy or inept feeling to figure out how to turn them off for themselves. The phone companies seem to have their software install with max volume and haptics turned on by default.
that works great if you keep your phone in your pocket. if you don’t…
Women in my experience point blank refused to keep their phones in their pocket and instead put it in the purse along with everything else so whenever it rings (assuming they even hear it in there) it’s always a mad dash to get it out before the person on the other end dies of old age.
I’ll apologize first: Sorry, kind internet stranger, you walked right in one of my pet peeves. (Now I feel morally justified in starting my rant with a level of emotional involvement that is totally and admittedly unjustified)
WOMEN’S POCKETS ARE A F****ING JOKE! Have you ever tried putting anything more that the glimmering sparkle of a summer night in a woman pants pocket? It either falls right off or tries to stab the kidney once the poor girl sits down. Usually both.
Because pants need to be stupidly skinny and form fitting, not made for comfort or for carrying anything!
My toddler’s pockets (2 years old) are bigger than mine!
/end rant, feel free to ring me up for extra rants on the subject
And if they do call and it’s an emergency they’ll leave a message anyway
Hopefully it’s not an actual emergency that requires immediate answer
If it’s an actual emergency, call 911.
If it doesn’t need 911, society needs to accept that people are sometimes just not immediately available and be accommodating.
I will answer my phone if one of a handful of people call me if at all possible, but sometimes it just isn’t in the cards. It’s convenient to take care of seemingly urgent matters that way, but it’s not the end of the world if it has to wait a bit for someone to be actually available.
The world survived for centuries without the ability to immediately get a hold of everyone at a moment’s notice.
Sucks if someone needs some urgent info from you, like a blood type or whatever for emergency contact reasons and they could have it, but you don’t like to answer the phone.
Nobody was saying you have to always immediately answer your phone. Just that there’s situations where a phone call is better than sending a text.
Can’t speak to the ‘or whatever’ as there may be things I know that are truly urgently needed, but blood type isn’t really an example of a phone type emergency.
Ambulances frequently don’t even carry blood, and when they do, they usually have a small amount of O blood. The question of blood type doesn’t even come into play. Similarly at the hospital, while they may prefer to match blood type, they will use O blood at least in the short term, with a blood typing test being a matter of a couple of minutes to get the information directly instead of relying on pulling up and using the emergency contact information. This is assuming their medical record doesn’t just already have the information.
As said, I try to be available, but it’s largely ruined by the volume of bullshit calls making it impossible to be at the beck and call of any random caller while also living a vaguely sane lifestyle. So I’ll usually send to voicemail unless it’s someone I actually recognize that I know will only call over an urgent matter.
old.people… always old people. The same people that would fucking call someone. I’m 43 yo and I nor anyone I know call anyone of it’s not an emergency
I absolutely hate text messages. I refuse to spend hours of my time sending text messages back and forth to solve a problem that a 60 second phone call could have disposed of.
It really depends case by case.
If back and forth starts going, then it’s time for a call.
However text first to establish:
- Is it shorter to take care of in text. Particularly if one party of the conversation tends to be needlessly verbose, text can be a godsend to let you skim their BS and cut to the chase.
- If there has to be a conversation, when would be a good time.
Petition to bring back calling babies “mites”
I haven’t been able to find this again, but there’s a short film that was made in England in 1946 that perfectly nailed how cell phones were going to work. There was even a man in a grocery store calling his wife at home to find out what ingredient he needed to pick up. The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie, which despite the movie images of an officer using a device about 1’x4"x4", in fact also required a ginormous and heavy backpack thing lugged around by some misbegotten private.
BTW a fun fact: the word “ginormous” (a portmanteau word combining “gigantic” and “enormous”) dates to WWII or earlier. I’d always assumed it was valley-girl speak until I encountered it in a Battle of Britain memoir written by a pilot who was killed in 1942.
The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie,
Featuring the svelte and portable Motorolla cellular model from 1988:
Which is an improvement from this beast:
