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vivdunstan ([personal profile] vivdunstan) wrote2023-09-20 04:41 pm
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Electronic Superhighway

This old comic came up on my Facebook today. Wow.

Calvin and his tiger pal Hobbes are walking along, chatting about the "Electronic superhighway". Calvin says: "Pretty soon, computers, telephones and TVs will all be hooked together to bring instantaneous, interactive communication right into our homes.", before noting his dad preferred it when you had to communicate by mail and "wouldn't hear back from anybody for at least a week." Calvin finishes with the comment "I'm a 21st century kid trapped in a 19th-century family."
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[personal profile] watervole 2023-09-20 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I deliberately don't take my phone with me everywhere. I don't want to be instantly contactable.
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[personal profile] vivdunstan 2023-09-21 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Neither Martin nor I have smartphones. My mobile phone is for emergency use and spends 99.9% of the time switched off. Martin has a dumb phone that he usually has somewhere, but is rarely contactable on it. We are not really mobile phoning types. Which given we're both computer science graduates and Martin is a software and hardware engineer still is quite unusual in our field. But equally we're probably both on the spectrum, and not really fans of the phone as a concept full stop!
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[personal profile] watervole 2023-09-21 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
Snap! My degree was in environmental and computer sciences.

I don't switch mine off as much as you do, but it doesn't bother me if it isn't on.
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