When Alexander Graham Bell uttered his immortal words “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you”, the telephone age was born—and voice communications advanced beyond the “dashs and dots” of Morse code.
From telephone to wireless communications-and satellite phones where you can conceivably speak to ANYONE on the planet from ANYWHERE on the planet is amazing!
Despite these advances, I don’t believe anyone could have predicted that texting would become so popular. After all, wouldn’t you rather speak to someone and hear their voice rather than read acronyms like “LOL”? I guess the answer is no!
Young people in particular are especially enamored of typing in the message rather than speaking directly. I will admit that I enjoy getting Sports updates from ESPN on my cell phone….more preferable to someone from ESPN calling me to tell me. But I would rather speak to my teenage son or daughter than read their communications. Of course, I would rather text over the alternative-zero contact.
My college-age son and high school student daughter both recently upgraded from a “pay-as-you-go” service to unlimited texting. E-mail is not their thing…IM(instant messaging) is popular with them, but not me…besides, who carts a computer around with them everywhere?
I must admit that I am looking forward to “speaking” more frequently with my kids via my thumbs typing in letters—versus not have calls returned or e-mails read.
It’s just sort of interesting that we have regressed! From voice to text! What’s next? Back to Morse code? If the mobile phone companies can find a way to make a buck off sending smoke signals, they’ll do it! Might as well, since our money is going up in smoke paying the bills!
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