Sending greetings on Facebook that will arrive in the first minutes of New Year's Eve, respecting time zones: the social network has designed a page on the Stories website where members can choose recipients, write a text, and arrange delivery anywhere in the world. Messages will be delivered automatically, shortly after the midnight bell rings according to the local time of the person receiving the communication. The first, for example, will reach those living in Australia. And in this way, it won't be necessary to stay next to a screen to know that you have caught the exact moment.
Useful? I say, at this point let's make an automated procedure that takes care of our relationships and lock ourselves in a bunker... we are losing the pleasure of communicating. Who is going to be interested in an SMS sent by a procedure?
Eheheh, you're right, but the technology isn't bad. I recently discovered what the iPhone 5 voice assistant can do. How many times has it happened to you that you leave the house and hear your wife / your partner / your mother say: "remember to call me when you arrive?" It was enough for me to say: "Remind me to call mom when I get to Tizio's house" (obviously Tizio must be registered in contacts with location, street, and house number). Upon arriving at the destination, there goes the notification to remind me to call my mother. I think that the use of technology is determined by taste. That's where taste always comes into play. I would never dream of sending a printed greeting card; it's nice to choose it and write on it with your own handwriting to leave a personal memory. Handwriting distinguishes us, and a letter has that ancient flavor of intimacy. A letter written on a computer loses all its charm.
In short, a matter of taste.
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... I haven't received a (real) postcard for years
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Think that 40 years have passed since the first mobile phone call: the (infinite) evolution of the species
"But the best is yet to come", cheerfully claims Marty Cooper, who is preparing a memoir and recently launched a "for seniors" mobile phone model with his wife. "The revolution will be seen as soon as we all realize that, in the end, the phone now serves mainly to exchange data, information, services. Paradoxically, the least useful thing a phone does today is make us talk and listen". Words from the man who made the first wireless call in history.
