Every time I see this modern technology is going to make us less human argument...
I remember I first heard it in the 1980s... and the guy was talking about the "burden" of his pager. Remember pagers?
Let's do a review of history shall we? ----------------------- Smart Phone Digital Publishing Palm Top Device Adobe TrueType Fonts HTML (www) Darpanet and NASAnet joined creating the Internet Laser Printer Cell Phone Email Word Processor Copy Machine Fax Machine Pager Teletype Ballpoint Pen Phone Typewriter Modern Chemical Pulp Paper Modern Postal Systems Fountain Pen Newspaper (Europe) Lithography Etching (for illustrations) William Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet Gutenberg Bible Printing Press Norman Conquest of England 1066 CE (French and Old English merged to Modern form) Moveable Type Hindu–Arabic numeral system Woodblock Printing (200 CE) Koine Greek (common non-local greek language adopted for 1st time) Sumerian Cuneiform script Papyrus Paper Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-writing (Eurasia in the early 3rd millennium BCE) Use of Clay Tablets to count grain used since 7000 BCE
And I just BET YOU a Solidus that 9000 years ago when the smart guys were making their little marks on clay and ignoring their women... other people were mocking them... record keeping hah never amount to anything they probably said!
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Very telling about what our society has become. Funny, but it pissed me off.7
ReplyDeletePardon me. My phone is ringing...
ReplyDeleteLouis CK has done some very sharp bits on this.
ReplyDeleteThere oughta be a law.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see this modern technology is going to make us less human argument...
ReplyDeleteI remember I first heard it in the 1980s... and the guy was talking about the "burden" of his pager.
Remember pagers?
Let's do a review of history shall we?
-----------------------
Smart Phone
Digital Publishing
Palm Top Device
Adobe TrueType Fonts
HTML (www)
Darpanet and NASAnet joined creating the Internet
Laser Printer
Cell Phone
Email
Word Processor
Copy Machine
Fax Machine
Pager
Teletype
Ballpoint Pen
Phone
Typewriter
Modern Chemical Pulp Paper
Modern Postal Systems
Fountain Pen
Newspaper (Europe)
Lithography
Etching (for illustrations)
William Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet
Gutenberg Bible
Printing Press
Norman Conquest of England 1066 CE (French and Old English merged to Modern form)
Moveable Type
Hindu–Arabic numeral system
Woodblock Printing (200 CE)
Koine Greek (common non-local greek language adopted for 1st time)
Sumerian Cuneiform script
Papyrus Paper
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Proto-writing (Eurasia in the early 3rd millennium BCE)
Use of Clay Tablets to count grain used since 7000 BCE
And I just BET YOU a Solidus that 9000 years ago when the smart guys were making their little marks on clay and ignoring their women... other people were mocking them... record keeping hah never amount to anything they probably said!
That Louis CK suggested clip at the end (him on Conan) is a good one:
ReplyDeleteLouis C.K. Hates Cell Phones
Gonna be a bitch when we find out they are all evil alien robots...
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