{"id":88,"date":"2015-08-12T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T22:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2015-08-12T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T22:46:18","slug":"how-portability-ruined-the-telephone-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"How Portability Ruined the Telephone &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By their very nature, mobile phones make telephony seem unreliable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I question the word &#8220;seem&#8221;.\u00a0 Modern telephony <strong>is<\/strong> unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent essay on why we don&#8217;t make phone calls any more, without even mentioning Automatic Voice Response systems.\u00a0 Everything that Prof. Bogost describes here explains why we don&#8217;t call our friends so much any more, and AVR on top of all that explains why we hate, hate, hate to have to call any business about anything any more.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/08\/why-people-hate-making-phone-calls\/401114\/\">How Portability Ruined the Telephone &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By their very nature, mobile phones make telephony seem unreliable. I question the word &#8220;seem&#8221;.\u00a0 Modern telephony is unreliable. An excellent essay on why we don&#8217;t make phone calls any more, without even mentioning Automatic Voice Response systems.\u00a0 Everything that Prof. Bogost describes here explains why we don&#8217;t call our friends so much any more, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/?p=88\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Portability Ruined the Telephone &#8211; The Atlantic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talent-free-studios.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}