Telephone
“Hello, is that Mrs Brooks?”
“No sorry – she hasn’t lived here for about nine years.”
“That’s OK, this isn’t a personal call. If I can just have a moment of your time…”
And so it begins: one of those irritating telemarketing conversations that makes you wish you’d picked up typhoid instead of the telephone.
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Technology is changing the way we communicate with each other – and not for the better. Gone are the days when “catching up” with friends required that you be in the same room, or even the same city.
Nowadays many of our closest relationships are mediated by machines, and it’s taking a toll on what was once considered civilised society. We are forgetting how to speak to one another face-to-face. We are switched-on, but we’re getting more and more disconnected from our true selves.
There is one product more than any other that has led to this worrying state of affairs.
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Sandy says:
You’re right Reg. I shouldn’t have been so slack with my word choice. We can really make it do wonderful things. Until the bullies and greedy lazy pigs turn up. Read more »
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Reg says:
But I thought law and taxes were for the good of the people, including and especially for the cretins? When you write “you,” do you mean for you in particular or for “us?” If it’s supposed to be self-evident then I plead age, blindness and creeping cretinism. What’s your excuse… Read more »
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