Fascinating how tehnology is entering popular culture at an accelerating rate:
Kallis to Silva, OUT, Gibbs does a Jonty! Remember that Inzamam-ul-Haq run out in 1992? Silva pushes a length-delivery on the off side,close on the off side and wants a run. Dilshan doesn’t agree with that assessment and sends him back. Too late. Gibbs charges in, picks the ball and flies into the furniture. Gone! A YouTube moment.
I was just reading Arrington’s humorous tale of having his electricity cut off and was struck by the following line:
I found the phone number for PG&E but the vonage line was out because it needs electricity.
Crikey, of course, VoIP needs electricity. It is a lot more dependant than “old style” telephony. I remember always being amazed as a kid when the phones still worked when the power went out.
Now imagine a world of VoIP and the electricity goes out and your grandpas home heart-lung machine fails. No life saving phone call possible.
We definitley need to think through our rapid adoption of cool technology. We also need to be careful how we use metaphors and portray new technology in old shells e.g. selling phones that rely on electricity and IP networks to people who, on seeing a normal looking phone, think it will work in blackouts and without broadband coming into their homes. Or cars that break down in the desert and require an engineer from Intel to fix rather than your wife’s stockings and a bit of elbow grease.
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