Forget what you know today about technology. Lets time warp back to the mid 1800’s. Many men are in development of a new communication device to replace carrier pigeons, semaphore and morse code.
1843 and the texting device is created. For the next 100 years new texting devices come out, but people STILL find that everything they say is misunderstood due to the lack of voice inflection.
Because of standard network delays, it takes 2 minutes to say “YES” or “THANK YOU”, it takes 10+ texts to simply arrange a meeting place, about 20 minutes to figure out when and where to meet up.
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“No I can’t be there at 2PM”
“What time CAN You be there”
“Not until 3:30”
“I can’t be there at 3:30”
“when CAN you be there?”
“4:15 at the latest”
“That’s too late”
“How about tomorrow?”
“I’m busy tomorrow”
“3PM Saturday?”
“That might work, I’ll text you when I know more”
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[b]AAAAARGH!!!![/b]
Circa 2005 some brilliant man invents a system where you no longer have to text each other but now you can TALK IN REAL TIME, LIVE, with your OWN VOICE!
It adds inflection and meaning, it’s faster and more efficient/concise. What was once 20-30 confusing messages, mainly explaining what the last text actually meant, is now a 1 minute conversation where you can pick up on sarcasm, humour, being upset etc. The telephone, with real time voice communication, would be an absolute breakthrough, life would be SO much easier! Conversations would be SO much more efficient.
So why did we go backward?
