tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237177447101494682.post4873801719487458974..comments2013-12-06T12:05:59.630-08:00Comments on 660 SOUP: The telephone ate the internet and the internet ate everything else.Kittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112611095482205687noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237177447101494682.post-58299211080406918732010-12-28T12:06:35.712-08:002010-12-28T12:06:35.712-08:00"technologies carry an essence." this re..."technologies carry an essence." this reminds me of memetics, that essence.<br />aside from that, i'm buddhist-like, so no thing has an essence.<br /><br />however I think there's an obvious chronological connection between these things. As the phone assimilates other technologies, it does so due to the functions it provides to its users.<br />In this way radio's ended up in cars, and music on computers--now music on the internet and the internet is on your phone. What happens when the ability to communicate is tremendously easier and more useful through the internet, than the only function necessary to a phone that keeps it a phone.<br /><br />If you made your phone calls exclusively through the internet, not as exterior product, but an interior service provided by whoever the hell is on the internet, as opposed to a massively controlling corporation, with sketchy influence through lobbying on government, and questionable intensions as evidenced by such acts as Comcast blocking torrents at one point, and AT&T wiretapping customers at the governments request.<br /><br />So eventually internet eats phone too, just like it ate the computer, which at one point had two types of users, those on and those offline.Premhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02684519026246781551noreply@blogger.com