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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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