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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Is the art of conversation dying due to text messaging?
I remember that I could tell over 100 jokes from memeory but now they're all stored in my phone's memory.
I still frequent the pub after work to meet friends but will the generation below mine have the same social interaction?
What direction do you think we are going? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh God no...could chat for England. What I do find is telephone numbers: sadly I don't know the numbers of my children, family or friends - with the execption of my sister who lives in Italy and my ex husband's office number! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You moaners n tutters would probably get your rocks off by carving messages on stone tablets and tying them to a pigeons leg.
Send your washing machines back n beat your laundry on the riverside rocks or shush moanin..... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Also photographs, how many actually print them out now, they are stored on PC and phone.
I got a Christmas present of a photo of my niece in a frame was so lovely"
Actually make sure you store them on 3 devices. 1) The PC 2)Removable/external Hard Drive 3) Burn to DVD.
For the latter store in a cool dark place otherwise it won't last too long.
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You moaners n tutters would probably get your rocks off by carving messages on stone tablets and tying them to a pigeons leg.
Send your washing machines back n beat your laundry on the riverside rocks or shush moanin..... "
Although there is a really serious problem with digital storage of information (I work in IT btw). You could find pictures and documents from your grandparents and still read/see them. Could you say the same for digital pictures in the next 10/20 years? Hell try finding a PC with a floppy drive in in nowerdays!
There are some research projects that aim to help future civilisation recover the data from the past. This involves a Russian doll approach where the first document is in simple English on some robust substrate which explains how to read or build a device to read the next layer in. So on and so on until you have built precision electronics to read xyz data storage devices.
Ok, I could cure anyone's insomnia... I'll get my coat! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Also photographs, how many actually print them out now, they are stored on PC and phone.
I got a Christmas present of a photo of my niece in a frame was so lovely
Actually make sure you store them on 3 devices. 1) The PC 2)Removable/external Hard Drive 3) Burn to DVD.
For the latter store in a cool dark place otherwise it won't last too long.
You moaners n tutters would probably get your rocks off by carving messages on stone tablets and tying them to a pigeons leg.
Send your washing machines back n beat your laundry on the riverside rocks or shush moanin.....
Although there is a really serious problem with digital storage of information (I work in IT btw). You could find pictures and documents from your grandparents and still read/see them. Could you say the same for digital pictures in the next 10/20 years? Hell try finding a PC with a floppy drive in in nowerdays!
There are some research projects that aim to help future civilisation recover the data from the past. This involves a Russian doll approach where the first document is in simple English on some robust substrate which explains how to read or build a device to read the next layer in. So on and so on until you have built precision electronics to read xyz data storage devices.
Ok, I could cure anyone's insomnia... I'll get my coat!"
And i thought text speak was difficult  |
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