That's right, ladies and gentlemen, Google Voice! If you click on that box and put in your phone number, it will call your phone and mine and connect the two. Ensuring the privacy of my phone number (and yours if you choose) but still making me 100% reachable at all times. Go ahead click it. I probably won't answer, but you can leave me a message!
So this is what it comes down to. Technology is just here to keep us as connected to the world as possible. It started way back in the day with just shouting really loudly and hoping the other person heard you. Then someone got the idea to write things down. Mail, telegraph, telephone, fax, e-mail, instant messaging, video chat, text messaging... It has all careened into a cobweb of continual contact. I believe that the intention was to make life easier, but is that what happened? This seems to be the goal for technology in most cases: make x easier or more practical. Here is how scientists define it:
technology
(těk-nŏl'ə-jē)- The use of scientific knowledge to solve practical problems, especially in industry and commerce.
- The specific methods, materials, and devices used to solve practical problems.
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This really begs the question, "Are these really problems that we're solving?" An awful lot of time, energy and money went into developing a way for you to click a link on a web page and have it call my phone. Is this time well spent? I can't really answer that since I think it's freakin' awesome! But maybe this is a necessary development. Maybe it will save lives and cure world hunger. After all, it is magic...
Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:
This really begs the question, "Are these really problems that we're solving?" An awful lot of time, energy and money went into developing a way for you to click a link on a web page and have it call my phone. Is this time well spent? I can't really answer that since I think it's freakin' awesome! But maybe this is a necessary development. Maybe it will save lives and cure world hunger. After all, it is magic...
Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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