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alexsarll"We're a nation of lazy so-and-sos," David Noone from Intervoice said. "We put the numbers in our phones so we can call a friend at the touch of just one or two buttons and we certainly can't be bothered to write them down in an old fashioned address book."
Isn't this the exact same form of 'laziness' which was decried around the invention of the written word, by people used to an oral tradition and aghast that the young folk weren't memorising entire epics anymore?
Why do some people insist on making the exact same stupid claims as the morons of centuries past? You know the ones - 'this new art form is not proper art', 'the end is nigh', 'our society is in a state of moral decline'...you could hear any of these at any time over the last 2,500 years, minimum. And on each and every occasion they were the bullsh1t whining of neophobes.
(While I was writing the above, I received about 25 blank text messages from someone repeatedly triggering their unlocked mobile. Even for me, with my alphabetical vulnerability to such attacks, I think this is a record. I am sure this provides some crowning moral about the linked dangers of lacking historical sense and an inability to cope with modern technology, but the bzz bzz bzz noise is still in my head and rather impairing my ability to form coherent thoughts)
Isn't this the exact same form of 'laziness' which was decried around the invention of the written word, by people used to an oral tradition and aghast that the young folk weren't memorising entire epics anymore?
Why do some people insist on making the exact same stupid claims as the morons of centuries past? You know the ones - 'this new art form is not proper art', 'the end is nigh', 'our society is in a state of moral decline'...you could hear any of these at any time over the last 2,500 years, minimum. And on each and every occasion they were the bullsh1t whining of neophobes.
(While I was writing the above, I received about 25 blank text messages from someone repeatedly triggering their unlocked mobile. Even for me, with my alphabetical vulnerability to such attacks, I think this is a record. I am sure this provides some crowning moral about the linked dangers of lacking historical sense and an inability to cope with modern technology, but the bzz bzz bzz noise is still in my head and rather impairing my ability to form coherent thoughts)
