On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 22:10, Melissa P <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW I just read a review in the NYT of a new book about Bell Labs. > Interesting stuff. I’m reminded of a lecture I attended in the early 1980s > by a scientist with Bellcore, the Baby Bells answer to Bell Labs. He > “warned” us of the coming paradigm shift in telephone usage, how we would be > calling individuals, not specific locations. I remember my colleagues and I > laughing afterwards. Because at that time we couldn’t grasp the > significance of what he was talking about.
A lot of what I remember about that concept, up to the days when cell phones were beginning to really take off (some time circa the mid 90s) was not a prediction that you would take your primary phone with you, but that the telephone network would route calls to your physical location, and we've never really gone there beyond things like Google Voice and the occasional tech firm that uses it as a whiz-bang feature to show off how cool they are. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
