i use a cell instead of a home phone. it has a lot of these “bells and whistles” which i don’t need and don’t use. i have a camera and a computer (among other things my phone provides) and don’t need or want them on my phone. some of these electronics companies should look at providing a phone to be just a phone. i’d get one in aheartbeat.
There was a time when, if our car wouldn’t run, we could open the hood, make a repair, and drive away. Did that make us smarter back then? In some ways we’re painting ourselves into a corner.
Yesterday’s “Monty” illustrates my new GPS. My son’s phone is constantly going off with text alerts. I miss the “good old days” when they couldn’t find you at all.
When a huge storm or hurricane comes through, those $ 400 cell phones don’t work cause the towers don’t function. But the old $ 8 land line works just fine.
The “smartphone” is the 21st century version of shackles and chain.
There is one thing worse than the idot talking on his phone at the top of his lungs carrying on a conversation that you don’t want to hear and preventing you from carrying on a conversation at all — and that is:sitting in the stall of a public toilet and hearing this voice in the next stall say sweetly “Hello. How are you?”
I have to agree with comicgos. I don’t think we ever were ever smarter than our phones. Now when a smartphone can open a bag of airline peanuts without blowing a proverbial fuse, then I’ll know we were never smarter.
I lived in an era when phones were connected to the wall by a wire, and televisions recieved their signals over the air. But now you can get TV on your phone. It just costs more, but I guess that’s progress.
It’s reversed for a lot of people – you get the phone over the air, and you need cables for TV… And we knew machines would take over – but we thought they’d be BIG machines!
JSFMIKE ,My $18 cell phone never quit when hurricane Wilma blew through here. I even got voice mail during the storm from a neighbor. My power was out for about four days, not bad, and the cable was out for 17 days, so no internet. I don’t have a land-line but a few people I know lost theirs for a while. I guess it’s the luck of the draw what you lose and what you don’t.
comicgos over 13 years ago
I’m beginning to that was never the case!
JanLC over 13 years ago
I was going to say “hear hear”, but I want to make it clear as a response to the strip, not to comicgos.
x_Tech over 13 years ago
When you dialed, say, 9 on a rotory dial phone, did you you know how to reset the dial for the next number?No, the phone did that for you.
person918 over 13 years ago
I feel like soon WIley will be living in the woods, growing a scraggly beard and writing a long, rambling manifesto kind of thing.
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
Well I don’t know if we were smarter then, or phones were just dumber.
ulomz over 13 years ago
Similar storyline in today’s Monty by Jim Meddick.. smart phones, ipads.. etc. taking over society. We are all becoming more introverted..
Elaine Rosco Premium Member over 13 years ago
I like my smart phone.
demorodney over 13 years ago
Anyone notice that way too many smart phone users have the old phone ring for a ringtone?
T_Lexi over 13 years ago
In the old days, you had an operator to do all the hard work for you.
Digital Frog over 13 years ago
and Apples and BlackBerrys were just part of a balanced diet.
alan.gurka over 13 years ago
In the old days, we didn’t carry our phones around with us—they stayed at home via land line.
KSfarmgirl over 13 years ago
smart phones still aren’t smart enough to work in my house- I have to go outside to find a signal but at least I don’t have to climb a telephone pole-
odeliasimone over 13 years ago
Only the youngsters are smarter than their smartphones.
William Reynolds over 13 years ago
You can’t get a signal in my home area. That’s smart?
Justice22 over 13 years ago
I have Verizon and only a little service in the Winter time. Leaves kill it in Summer.
bmonk over 13 years ago
Too many machines today have the delusion that they are smarter than I am—or at least that they know what I want.And far too often they’re wrong.
yyyguy over 13 years ago
i use a cell instead of a home phone. it has a lot of these “bells and whistles” which i don’t need and don’t use. i have a camera and a computer (among other things my phone provides) and don’t need or want them on my phone. some of these electronics companies should look at providing a phone to be just a phone. i’d get one in aheartbeat.
Bruce McKinney Premium Member over 13 years ago
AMEN!
littlejeff over 13 years ago
There was a time when, if our car wouldn’t run, we could open the hood, make a repair, and drive away. Did that make us smarter back then? In some ways we’re painting ourselves into a corner.
Dtroutma over 13 years ago
Yesterday’s “Monty” illustrates my new GPS. My son’s phone is constantly going off with text alerts. I miss the “good old days” when they couldn’t find you at all.
michael.p.pumilia over 13 years ago
How many people use all the features in their basic iphone or Blackberry? And that is not counting the apps.
michael.p.pumilia over 13 years ago
When a huge storm or hurricane comes through, those $ 400 cell phones don’t work cause the towers don’t function. But the old $ 8 land line works just fine.
whitecarabao over 13 years ago
The “smartphone” is the 21st century version of shackles and chain.
There is one thing worse than the idot talking on his phone at the top of his lungs carrying on a conversation that you don’t want to hear and preventing you from carrying on a conversation at all — and that is:sitting in the stall of a public toilet and hearing this voice in the next stall say sweetly “Hello. How are you?”
Ernest Lemmingway over 13 years ago
I have to agree with comicgos. I don’t think we ever were ever smarter than our phones. Now when a smartphone can open a bag of airline peanuts without blowing a proverbial fuse, then I’ll know we were never smarter.
dflak over 13 years ago
I lived in an era when phones were connected to the wall by a wire, and televisions recieved their signals over the air. But now you can get TV on your phone. It just costs more, but I guess that’s progress.
SClark55 Premium Member over 13 years ago
It’s reversed for a lot of people – you get the phone over the air, and you need cables for TV… And we knew machines would take over – but we thought they’d be BIG machines!
doc white over 13 years ago
well he is in the right place.
W6BXQ, John over 13 years ago
JSFMIKE ,My $18 cell phone never quit when hurricane Wilma blew through here. I even got voice mail during the storm from a neighbor. My power was out for about four days, not bad, and the cable was out for 17 days, so no internet. I don’t have a land-line but a few people I know lost theirs for a while. I guess it’s the luck of the draw what you lose and what you don’t.
vldazzle over 13 years ago
Just have one landline for my use with the FAX and both my TiVos.
putes over 13 years ago
I remember when machines did the work and man did thinking
SClark55 Premium Member over 13 years ago
I began to lose my ability to think when they came out with electronic calculators.