telephones
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This Wired Article From 2007 About Throwing Away Your Mobile Phone Makes Some Good Points
Everyone gets frustrated with their mobile phones at some point, leading many of us to fantasise about throwing our shit into the ocean and just living without one. And back in the ancient world of 2007, that was a much more reasonable possibility. A Wired article from July 31, 2007 made the case that there…
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AT&T Launches Fake 5G Network In Desperate Attempt To Seem Innovative
Have you heard? AT&T is going to “pave the way for the next generation of faster speeds” with something called 5G Evolution. No, it’s not actually a new 5G network, the much hyped successor to 4G that’s supposed to change the way we connect to the internet. It’s just a re-branded 4G offering, and AT&T’s…
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Tomorrow’s Telephone And The Leisure Society That Never Arrived
50 years ago, the most revolutionary technology of the future was supposed to be the telephone — thanks to some high-tech upgrades just over the horizon, of course. At least that’s what the phone companies kept telling us.
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First Television And Telephone Satellite Launched 50 Years Ago
On July 10, 1962, NASA launched the first Telstar satellite. The spherical satellite, which actually looks like a model of the Death Star, was the first to relay television and telephone signals through space.