NickwithaC to Dank Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 months agoA more realistic futurelemmy.worldimagemessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1778
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minus-square@I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-22 months 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-square@psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoLet’s unbuild all the roads for a fair comparison then.
minus-square@I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoAircraft are a better analogy I guess. No infrastructure needed other than the end points.
minus-square@psyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoAnd the air traffic controllers, and the regulated airspace…
minus-square@ThatGuy46475@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•2 months agoMobile phones would be more like teleporting in this analogy
minus-square@scutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 months agoI don’t know about you, but I remember a time when everyone had a landline.
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…
Mobile phones would be more like teleporting in this analogy
I don’t know about you, but I remember a time when everyone had a landline.