What is your phone number? We’re getting to a point where phone numbers matter less and less. Names are saved in my phone so I don’t have to remember them, but a phone call or text is just one of a dozen ways I can contact someone. As we head toward an essentially number-less future, some relics from the past keep popping up. Just this week alone, I’ve seen a handful of situations where people gave out multiple phone numbers “so I’m easy to reach”, when the reality is that it makes it more difficult.
Multiple phone numbers is generally crazy! Maybe, just maybe, I could see value in daytime vs. evening numbers, but we all know how to forward phones.
I do have this one silly fear of not knowing any numbers. Should I ever get arrested, and have that chance to make only one call, uh ... I don't know that number! Same idea, if I'm ever out somewhere, and my phone dies, I can't call for help. "modern world problems"
Remember the day when folks paid for land-line phone calls outside their city? Many businesses had “local” numbers in neighboring cities so they could be reached for free. All because Steve Jobs and AT&T forced the other Telocos to embrace a different paradigm, where the phone company’s strangled apps were replaced by free market ones.
Multiple phone numbers is generally crazy! Maybe, just maybe, I could see value in daytime vs. evening numbers, but we all know how to forward phones.
I do have this one silly fear of not knowing any numbers. Should I ever get arrested, and have that chance to make only one call, uh ... I don't know that number! Same idea, if I'm ever out somewhere, and my phone dies, I can't call for help. "modern world problems"
The "daytime vs evening" is interesting, but I agree that there are solutions to solve that.
For the memorization, I keep a half-dozen numbers in Anki so that I remember them just in case...
Remember the day when folks paid for land-line phone calls outside their city? Many businesses had “local” numbers in neighboring cities so they could be reached for free. All because Steve Jobs and AT&T forced the other Telocos to embrace a different paradigm, where the phone company’s strangled apps were replaced by free market ones.