NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Dank Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoA more realistic futurelemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1721arrow-down112
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minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down16·edit-214 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-up1·5 hours agoI don’t know about you, but I remember a time when everyone had a landline.
minus-squarepsyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 hours agoLet’s unbuild all the roads for a fair comparison then.
minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoAircraft are a better analogy I guess. No infrastructure needed other than the end points.
minus-squarepsyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoAnd the air traffic controllers, and the regulated airspace…
minus-squareThatGuy46475@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·21 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