If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
I think that what we should do is have short, clipped conversations on the telephone so someone can always get us, not talking about inane stuff and having someone trying to get you. I also think we've just got to be more sensitive toward other people and not call them at night if you know they've been working.
For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?