NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Dank Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoA more realistic futurelemmy.worldimagemessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1688arrow-down111
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minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down15·edit-210 hours agoMobile phone? ❌ Landline? ✅ Not an exact equivalence, but some similarities. Edit for clarification: Cars, and mobile phones, can go anywhere. Trains, and Landline phones have fixed locations only.
minus-squarescutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoI don’t know about you, but I remember a time when everyone had a landline.
minus-squarepsyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoLet’s unbuild all the roads for a fair comparison then.
minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoAircraft are a better analogy I guess. No infrastructure needed other than the end points.
minus-squarepsyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoAnd the air traffic controllers, and the regulated airspace…
minus-squareThatGuy46475@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·17 hours agoMobile phones would be more like teleporting in this analogy
Mobile phone? ❌
Landline? ✅
Not an exact equivalence, but some similarities.
Edit for clarification:
Cars, and mobile phones, can go anywhere. Trains, and Landline phones have fixed locations only.
I don’t know about you, but I remember a time when everyone had a landline.
Let’s unbuild all the roads for a fair comparison then.
Aircraft are a better analogy I guess. No infrastructure needed other than the end points.
And the air traffic controllers, and the regulated airspace…
Mobile phones would be more like teleporting in this analogy