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encoderer ◴[] No.41840917[source]
Finally, 24 years in, it’s really starting to FEEL like a new century.
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1. simonsarris ◴[] No.41843373[source]
you don't think smartphones and total mobile phone adoption were a massive change to life before?
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2. encoderer ◴[] No.41845930[source]
When I was a kid and imagined the future I didn’t spend too much time thinking about the communicator. Kind of boring in the bigger picture.
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3. Aachen ◴[] No.41847041[source]
I did. There was no talking to friends after turning off the computer and then it was also too late to make phone calls. I remember pretend-playing (if that's the English word for it) having conversations in them while already in bed. Nowadays that's not uncommon to do at all

Not that I had a grand vision as, what was I, perhaps 7 years old? But communication and the transfer of information are two of the main things to live for. Neither seems boring or small beans to me at all

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4. encoderer ◴[] No.41849681{3}[source]
Absolutely nothing boring about communicating, but the communicator itself is near/low tech. That’s why we have billions of them already in people’s hands.

Glad you have one!!