As someone who grew up with analog phone lines, it's brutal to me hearing how amazingly low latency the call is in this video. They can talk as if they're in the same room, no 2 second silences, no talking over one another.
i think a lot about that guy in the early 1900s who went to bosnia to the last illiterate communities in europe and found out they were still reciting homer epic-length poems to each other from memory.
but when they became literate they lost the ability to remember the poems
Google started showing how often they receive defamation claims from restaurants now. People in Germany now look at that instead of the stars to decide where to eat. Streisand effect in full gear
i wonder how many people remember that herman miller invented the cubicle as a backlash against open workspaces which literally everyone on earth hated