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New Technology both amuses me and makes me laugh!
Once upon a time, cell phones came out and gave us the ability to be reachable outside of our homes and places of work. Wonderful! What was even cooler is some of the older phones ended up looking like sc-fi fantasy junk. (IE, every flip phone ever reminds me of the communicators in the Original Star Trek, especially the Star Tac. Nerds must have designed them.)
Then, they gave cell phones the ability to send short alpha numeric messages, or SMS, or simply stated a text message. So instead of calling someone, you could send them a 160 character message that at first, took longer to type into the phone then if you just called the person directly. At first, I thought that this ability was rather silly, especially when text shorthand came out, + u cld hve entire convos w/ only a few ky strokes (I hate text short hand and attempt to use it as little as possible, though I might start using 4Q. If you do not know what that means, please go to your nearest Church and start saying 4Q out loud over and over again until someone tells you what it means. I swear it won’t take long), but I now find that in an average month I send and received over 2,000 of these little bastards, using text messaging far more for conversations on my phone than actually phone calls. (text messaging is rather like a cult, converting all to its degenerate ways)
And now, there is this new program called Dragon. Dragon is a program that can convert speech into text. It was first available to consumers for their personal computers with the idea it be used to write documents faster than ever before, but it is now available on cell phones. So now, texters have the ability to speak into their phone, that Dragon then generates that into an alphanumeric message, that can then be sent to another phone, and with another and completely separate program, can then be read out loud to the receiving party, by passing any need for human beings the need to have the ability to type and/or the ability to read.
So basically, cell phones have gone from a tool that helps us stay in contact easier with the important people in our lives (IE parents, children, friends, work, bill collector, Jerry Springer) to a tool we can use to minimize our interpersonal relationships (IE ignore Mom and Dad and the kids; screen calls from friends and work; never interact with Bill Collectors and ensure your only interaction with Jerry Springer is the occasional sick day where nothing else is on TV).
To further this point, I am going to post this on LiveJournal and place a link for it on Facebook, where the feedback will be in comments that I can freely roll my eyes at, ignore, delete, ‘like’, or simply reply with an over used LOL all with the use of my Cell Phone.
Once upon a time, cell phones came out and gave us the ability to be reachable outside of our homes and places of work. Wonderful! What was even cooler is some of the older phones ended up looking like sc-fi fantasy junk. (IE, every flip phone ever reminds me of the communicators in the Original Star Trek, especially the Star Tac. Nerds must have designed them.)
Then, they gave cell phones the ability to send short alpha numeric messages, or SMS, or simply stated a text message. So instead of calling someone, you could send them a 160 character message that at first, took longer to type into the phone then if you just called the person directly. At first, I thought that this ability was rather silly, especially when text shorthand came out, + u cld hve entire convos w/ only a few ky strokes (I hate text short hand and attempt to use it as little as possible, though I might start using 4Q. If you do not know what that means, please go to your nearest Church and start saying 4Q out loud over and over again until someone tells you what it means. I swear it won’t take long), but I now find that in an average month I send and received over 2,000 of these little bastards, using text messaging far more for conversations on my phone than actually phone calls. (text messaging is rather like a cult, converting all to its degenerate ways)
And now, there is this new program called Dragon. Dragon is a program that can convert speech into text. It was first available to consumers for their personal computers with the idea it be used to write documents faster than ever before, but it is now available on cell phones. So now, texters have the ability to speak into their phone, that Dragon then generates that into an alphanumeric message, that can then be sent to another phone, and with another and completely separate program, can then be read out loud to the receiving party, by passing any need for human beings the need to have the ability to type and/or the ability to read.
So basically, cell phones have gone from a tool that helps us stay in contact easier with the important people in our lives (IE parents, children, friends, work, bill collector, Jerry Springer) to a tool we can use to minimize our interpersonal relationships (IE ignore Mom and Dad and the kids; screen calls from friends and work; never interact with Bill Collectors and ensure your only interaction with Jerry Springer is the occasional sick day where nothing else is on TV).
To further this point, I am going to post this on LiveJournal and place a link for it on Facebook, where the feedback will be in comments that I can freely roll my eyes at, ignore, delete, ‘like’, or simply reply with an over used LOL all with the use of my Cell Phone.