The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993)
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#2wish it wasnt paywalled--- what does it say ?
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#3wish it wasnt paywalled--- what does it say ?
It works for me, I'm not even logged in.
I wonder if NYT has the paywall differently depending on your region.
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#4wish it wasnt paywalled--- what does it say ?
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#5In a way, this sorta seems like it was an inevitability; humans are a very social species. It only makes sense that our advancements in tech would, first and foremost, promote that.
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#8This hasn't held up well:
> Martin E. P. Seligman, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania [...] has been monitoring the temperature of emotional incidents on the computer network to see how they differ from "real time" emotion. The constraints of the form tend to flatten anger and push toward civility, he finds.
Re: The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993)
#9wish it wasnt paywalled--- what does it say ?
If you're on a phone you might get tricked into thinking it is paywalled by the giant advertisement for the print replica of the article but if you scroll down past that you can view the article in its entirety.
Re: The telephone transformed – into almost everything (1993)
#10>"Oh," he says. "You mean why no voice dialing? Saying 'Get Fred' or 'Get Sam' or something? I don't have a voice dialer." He will soon, surely. Any day now, he will be able to pick up a phone anywhere and say "Call home" to a network that will recognize his voice and look up his home number (verifying his credit by means of his voiceprint).
In hindsight that's a... yesn't.