{"id":2159,"date":"2012-05-19T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2012-05-18T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:57:32","slug":"object-of-our-obsession-distraction-loathing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/05\/19\/object-of-our-obsession-distraction-loathing\/","title":{"rendered":"Object of our obsession, distraction, loathing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In a recent edition of Slate<\/em>, there’s a wonderful slide show history<\/a> of phone styles from the earliest of the late 19th century to the iSlab. Like many, I have a love\/hate relationship with the phone. I love it when it rings on Mother’s Day and I hear my son’s voice on the line. I hate it every evening when the telemarketers ply their trade. And, in general, I don’t like lengthy phone conversations–I’d rather email or text (oops, that’s a phone function, isn’t it).<\/p>\n

Don’t know how to text or use other smartphone functions? Don’t feel like an outlier. Here’s a little video introducing users to the brand new style known as “the dial phone”:<\/p>\n

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Obviously, the phone is everywhere in our daily lives–and newsworthy occasionally, like the episode on the Northway a few winters ago when a car went off the road and, because there was no cell service, one of the injured occupants died before help arrived.<\/p>\n

Like a cigarette dangling from Humphrey Bogart’s lips, phones are a part of our film culture, too. Here’s a wonderful compilation of “phone” clips from movies put together by the artist Christian Marclay.
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\nOkay, the line is open. Love ’em or hate ’em?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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