Is Telephony Dead?

[Lancecastor]

We still call mobile devices "phones" as a form of cultural shorthand... Like "pass me a kleenex"....

But people who grew up post Internet don't make telephony their preferred choice.

Is voice telephony dead?

 

[Aella_]

Let me think …
People here cybersex like rabbits.
Is real sex dead ?

 

[sweepthefloor]

Telephonic outreach, call me.

 

[Lancecastor]

Let me think …
People here cybersex like rabbits.
Is real sex dead ?

A valiant effort!

Keep trying.

 

[thefishfryer]

No

 

[Liar]

Let me think …
People here cybersex like rabbits.
Is real sex dead ?

Rabbits don't cybersex much at all.

Also, cybersex ain't no verb.

 

[Disgustipated]

Rabbits don't cybersex much at all.

Also, cybersex ain't no verb.

Also, also... "Let me think...." isn't a possibility likely to occur in this dimension for him.

 

[Ramone45]

I've always thought "telephony" was a funny word and I don't know what it means.

 

[lovecraft68]

The word will exist until all us pre net pre "mobile device" folk are gone.

 

[Aella_]

Also, also... "Let me think...." isn't a possibility likely to occur in this dimension for him.

Yet it did happen for you and the other three female impersonators.

 

[juttjaw]

Is telephony like a wifey kinda word? I have no clue what wifey means, or in what context it should be used.

 

[Minalick]

Rotary phones!
Remember calling boys when I was little and losing my nerve at the last number going around the dial and hanging up.

 

[ryan8558]

Party lines!

Sharing a single number with a neighbor or neighbors.

Sometimes quite interesting trying to make a phone call.

 

[Lancecastor]

It seems to me that most of us communicate primarily by text/email and a voice call comes somewhere after that.

 

[Smootg103]

Rabbits don't cybersex much at all.

Also, cybersex ain't no verb.

He come from a 3rd world where rape is as common as blowing you nose, brah

 

[Noor]

I used my hardwired landline just last night so no, not dead for me.

I have 4 numbers and I have them ringing all phones and my computer devices.

 

[ryan8558]

I still have a landline. Also VoIP and smartphone.

and only text for quick questions or answers.

also emails are not used for conversations. if I want to converse with someone it's on the phone.

 

[Lancecastor]

In 2011 CNN noted the trend....

Do you prefer to get a text message or a phone call if someone wants to reach you on your cell phone? According to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 31% of American adults prefer text messages to phone calls.

An additional 14% said the contact method they prefer depends on the situation.

To put this in perspective, most Americans (but just barely: 53%) still generally prefer to get voice calls rather than text messages. Also, Pew notes that 4% of cell owners do not make or receive any voice calls on an average day. And 27% of cell owners do not use text messaging, even occasionally.

Not surprisingly, younger adults are especially likely to use texting. According to Pew, "Cell owners between the ages of 18 and 24 exchange an average of 109.5 messages on a normal day -- more than 3,200 texts per month. And the typical or median cell owner in this age group sends or receives 50 messages per day (or 1500 messages per month)."

Also, the rate of texting for 18- to 24-year-olds is "more than double the comparable figure for 25-34 year olds, and 23 times the figure for text messaging users who are 65 or older."

Whether individuals prefer to get text messages rather than voice calls appears to have a large correlation with how heavily they use text messaging. For instance, 55% of people who send or receive more than 51 texts per day report preferring them to phone calls. However, since younger adults are most likely to be heavy texters, this preference does indirectly correlate with age.

 

[Super-Surprise]

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[Hypoxia]

Telephony literally means "talking at a distance".
Can you hear me?
Will people stop talking to other people who aren't nearby?
Probably not.
But devices we think of as telephones will go away.
What will replace them?
Commo transcievers implanted in brains for effective telepathy.
We are doomed.

 

[thør]

Telephonic outreach, call me.

Call me (call me) on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me (call me) my love
You can call me any day or night
Call me

 

[Colonel Hogan]

No one can type as fast as they can talk. Texting is a silly, inefficient use of the digital realm. Texting was actually invented first in the form of the telegram. Voice telephony blew it out of the water for well over a century.

I actually sent my first text messages this very weekend, and only because I knew the recipient would likely see them before voice mail or e-mail messages. Certainly NOT because I thought it was generally a better way to communicate.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Call me (call me) on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me (call me) my love
You can call me any day or night
Call me

 

[Que]

No one can type as fast as they can talk. Texting is a silly, inefficient use of the digital realm. Texting was actually invented first in the form of the telegram. Voice telephony blew it out of the water for well over a century.

I actually sent my first text messages this very weekend, and only because I knew the recipient would likely see them before voice mail or e-mail messages. Certainly NOT because I thought it was generally a better way to communicate.

This was my attitude for a long time. I used to joke, "What's next? Phones that are smoke signal capable??

I was especially erped that, for a while, texts cost more than phone calls that taxed the capacity of the cell towers far more.

Voice-to-text changed all that. It is far easier to be clearly understood from a text that the recipient can re-read as needed. Also, the time it takes to edit it for all of the errors tends to limit my verbosity slightly which is appreciated by most.

 

[Hypoxia]

Smartphones came online about 16 years ago and have changed the world.

Apple produced the Mac 16 years before that and also changed the world.

Intel made the first microprocessor 10 years before that; yes, world changes.

Texas Instruments made the very first integrated circuits 15 years before that.

And Bell Labs invented the transistor 10 years earlier; now they're everywhere.

Each later development involved exponentially more complex technology that was quickly built upon. Each step changed the world. We can expect something just as radically transforming in the next few years, something mind-blowing that changes how humans communicate.

I'm betting on WiFi+ brain implants as I mentioned above. Oh, not immediately. First will be implanted cellphones. A chip module replaces your thumbnail. Speak to the hand! That chip also gets you through transit check-ins, passport controls, store checkouts, ID checks, and toll booths. And unlike a smartphone it can't be stolen. (Cutting off the thumb voids the contract and there's no SIM chip.)

Actually, I'm betting on something we've not even thought of yet. But it's coming. Whatever it is.