From the days when the home phone was the only way to talk to others, technology has evolved. The cell phone has become democratized. Now you can talk to the whole planet no matter where you are, as long as cellular service is available for the caller and the called party.
Whether at the grocery store, in the garage, in a swimming pool, at a show, in the car, on the bike, on skis, paying a bill, ordering a meal, eating it, filling up, on the beach, in the sea or among people, everywhere and all the time, the callers and the called talk to each other. They may even do so by indulging in another activity. They need to communicate. And that’s what they do without restraint.
In the days of one phone per house, people didn’t talk everywhere and all the time like they do today. Yet they wanted to communicate with others just as much. They had words to say, but they couldn’t do it.
So where did all those words go unsaid by the generations before the democratization of cellphones in the late 1990s? Did they accumulate in the cloud?
It’s amazing how many words this generation hasn’t said. Am I exaggerating? To get an idea, look around you. Hear people talking relentlessly on the cell phone, everywhere, at any time, often without discretion or civility.
Occasionally, casual conversations on the cell phone are held in full view of everyone. If the telephone used for chatting had been screwed into a wall at home, the conversation would not have taken place. And the unsaid words would have flown to the cloud. There would have been a gain in peace.
Let’s look at our society today. The verdict is final. It calls in droves. People need to talk to each other or see themselves talking to two or more people. This need existed before the democratization of the cell phone, but the pre-democratization generation repressed its emotions, not being able to express them technologically as today. How many words have not been said contrary to our era where an astonishing amount of words are said? Before the democratization of the cell phone, how many conversations never left the abyss of emotions?
And now, 35 years after the invention of the cell phone by engineer Martin Cooper, what will happen with his invention? What will be its evolution? Mr. Cooper (94) has already thought about it. His vision is for wireless to be introduced into the human body.
His idea is for the phone to become part of ourselves.
Isn’t it already done?