Michael Regilio
speaker
2,071 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
Michael Regilio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It did not start with television.
In fact, many of the fears people have today about the smartphone are almost identical to the fears people once had about the phone phone.
Or I guess now we'd have to call that the dumb phone.
Yes, exactly.
Critics argued that speaking to someone without physically being present was unnatural and would weaken social bonds.
Many people believed that face-to-face conversation was morally and socially superior and that the telephone encouraged emotional laziness.
There were also fears it would spread misinformation and gossip.
Newspapers and clergy warned that the telephone would accelerate rumors and lies, allowing falsehoods to travel faster than the truth.
Maybe that sounds a little familiar.
Absolutely.
So people were super freaked out about the telephone.
They thought it would collapse social hierarchies and destroy privacy.
Do you know what a party line was?
For one, yes, that is exactly what a party line was back in the 90s.
And I'm a little embarrassed to admit I called a few times.
Yeah, they're praying that you go behind your parents back and stick them with the bill.
And it probably was a pretty good business model.
But no, we both have the right idea.
But party lines go back way further than the 1990s.
And they were not for socializing.
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