Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:44:47 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Technology & Society, or will the landline join the buggy whip?
From: whitroth at 5-cent.us
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Cc: "WSFA Official List" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> "The long slow death of the landline"
>
> "The CDC reports that more than one third of American homes are now
> landline-free, with six in ten adults aged under 30 living in
> households with only wireless phones."
>
> http://boingboing.net/2012/12/28/the-long-slow-death-of-the-lan.html
>
With any luck, it won't be near gone before I am. I *hate* cell phones.
Esp. since I'm one of the rapidly decreasing population, apparently, who
actually MAKE PHONE CALLS and want to TALK TO PEOPLE.

A couple years ago, I heard a report on the current/new crop of cell
phones. At the end of the `10 or more minute piece, crowing over all the
Wonderful Features, they said, "and how about voice quality". The response
was that one wan't bad, one was mediocre, and the rest were *terrible*.

So the next person who even *thinks* about talking to me about the Wonders
of their New Phone, unless the first thing you tell me is "voice quality
is better than landlines 90 years ago", and "you can talk on it without
entertaining the entire Metro car", I'll tell you that you're paying *way*
too much money for a piece of crap that some PR type told you was k3wl,
and let's just skip the actual conversation.

          mark