NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Dank Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoA more realistic futurelemmy.worldimagemessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1785arrow-down113
arrow-up1772arrow-down1imageA more realistic futurelemmy.worldNickwithaC@lemmy.world to Dank Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square118fedilink
minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down16·edit-218 days agoMobile phone? ❌ Landline? ✅ Not an exact equivalence, but some similarities. Edit for clarification: Cars, and mobile phones, can go anywhere. Trains, and Landline phones have fixed locations only.
minus-squarepsyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·18 days agoLet’s unbuild all the roads for a fair comparison then.
minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoAircraft are a better analogy I guess. No infrastructure needed other than the end points.
minus-squarepsyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoAnd the air traffic controllers, and the regulated airspace…
minus-squarescutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 days agoI don’t know about you, but I remember a time when everyone had a landline.
minus-squareThatGuy46475@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·18 days agoMobile phones would be more like teleporting in this analogy
Mobile phone? ❌
Landline? ✅
Not an exact equivalence, but some similarities.
Edit for clarification:
Cars, and mobile phones, can go anywhere. Trains, and Landline phones have fixed locations only.
Let’s unbuild all the roads for a fair comparison then.
Aircraft are a better analogy I guess. No infrastructure needed other than the end points.
And the air traffic controllers, and the regulated airspace…
I don’t know about you, but I remember a time when everyone had a landline.
Mobile phones would be more like teleporting in this analogy