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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days ago

Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

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Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

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Ironically the Brits got this right with “mobiles”. What’s the key characteristic of a cellphone? That it is portable and mobile.
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  but the key characteristic of a car is also the mobility.
  
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