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Wow, that's a new one for me (only app payments accepted). In the US, at least.
Ticketmaster using monopoly power to force use of app to attend concerts. Can’t even print ticket any longer.
I want to: USE THE TICKETMASTER™ APP FOR MY TICKET, AND NOT HAVE ANY OTHER WAY TO HAVE IT—DEFINITELY NOT PDF.
So that: I CAN HAVE THE CONCERT EXPERIENCE OF THE FUTURE©
"That's it. I've just written the perfect product brief."
> Now, increasingly, cellphones are * day-to-day life* . Far from the literal “pocket telephones” envisioned a century ago, they’ve worked their way into nearly every aspect of human existence, including those Haselden could never have considered. It is now essential to be considered part of the society, to the point that someone who does not want to or cannot carry a cell phone is sneered at. Anecdotally, I was in t…
> I was refused service at a hair cutting chain because I did not have a cell phone I don't believe this.
I'm skeptical of the "chain" aspect - a chain is more likely to have hardware and support other methods - but a visitor may not know what is/isn't a chain anyway.
OR a particular employ is new or lazy and just didn't want to drag out the hardware. ;)
> Now, increasingly, cellphones are * day-to-day life* . Far from the literal “pocket telephones” envisioned a century ago, they’ve worked their way into nearly every aspect of human existence, including those Haselden could never have considered. It is now essential to be considered part of the society, to the point that someone who does not want to or cannot carry a cell phone is sneered at. Anecdotally, I was in t…
> I was refused service at a hair cutting chain because I did not have a cell phone I don't believe this.
This happened when I was trying to park near a place to get my phone fixed!
I think the joke is still good, because it's still a bad manner to have your phone ringing and buzzing in many situations (a concert, at the opera etc). I mean, it's actually an impressive comic, it imagines a possible future tech and correctly identifies some real misuses, 70-80 years before it became reality.
When cell phones were in their infancy, I remember reading an article, some kind of op-ed, about how they were ruining society. His primary example, his primary complaint, was a situation where he was at dinner with his wife and his own cell phone rang. A friend was calling him! On his phone, at dinner! How incredibly, unimaginably rude could someone be? To call someone while he was in a public restaurant, at dinner…
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> I was refused service at a hair cutting chain because I did not have a cell phone I don't believe this.
I actually had a similar problem trying to park in a parking garage. I talked to some people working there (they were moving 'event day price' signs around). I asked if there was a kiosk or any other way to pay (other than by phone). They said there was not and said I just had to leave and find street parking. This happened when I was trying to park near a place to get my phone fixed!
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Yet it predicted the future more accurately than Blade Runner (1982) where people still use pay phones in 2019.
And rotary phones in the matrix. I mean it s not like people don't buy record players. The cities of our future will have payphones out of boredom
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When cell phones were in their infancy, I remember reading an article, some kind of op-ed, about how they were ruining society. His primary example, his primary complaint, was a situation where he was at dinner with his wife and his own cell phone rang. A friend was calling him! On his phone, at dinner! How incredibly, unimaginably rude could someone be? To call someone while he was in a public restaurant, at dinner…
Seems to me that the Bluetooth speaker is really just the reincarnation of the boombox.
I think the joke is still good, because it's still a bad manner to have your phone ringing and buzzing in many situations (a concert, at the opera etc). I mean, it's actually an impressive comic, it imagines a possible future tech and correctly identifies some real misuses, 70-80 years before it became reality.
I'd bet the majority of phone interactions are Internet based, though- not people wishing to text/talk but notifications from apps telling you about the latest inconsequential thing to promote interaction with them.
remember when we used to playback our voicemails on analogue tape, and check our mail, and interact with strangers, and read the headlines, all maximum once a day..