1919 (correctly)

i just love it that they made like 20.000 of these and when one turned out to be correct it's just so correct it makes you resonate with a random dead guy from a hundred years ago

I always love small misconceptions about technology that didn’t exist yet. In this case: no chance of silencing or turning off the device. Cracks me up!
- No concept of voicemail.
  If there were answering services, they were for rich people of just called secretaries.
I was honestly ready to whine about the timing and this not making sense.. but no, turns out my timeline, despite being based on books that were supposed to be well-researched, was way off. And indeed the first chatter about mobile phones was around 1908. Til.
Have some Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

Reminder that Socrates was said to have hated books because they corrupted the youth, weakening students’ faculties by removing the need to memorise information.

Every single generation since records have existed thought the new tech was ruining us.

Now get off my fucking lawn.

Ah but new tech always has been ruining us
- Those damn kids and their newfangled pointy rocks. Back in my day, if you needed your rock to do more damage, you just got a bigger one!
Wait did Socrates really say that?
God he'd absolutely hate me. I can't memorize anything, but I can seemingly learn everything
We also have a lot more knowledge than we used to. Socrates didn't have to remember about molecular metabolization pathways or the energy transition of a turbium atom, or what the arbitrary name has been given to a medium coffee at Starbucks.
- Could socrates predict invention of encyclopedia?
  Ancient philosphy vs some madlad going "Ah yes today I will write down EVERYTHING."
While the concert and wedding are events where you should turn off your ringer, it's certainly true that phones can ring at inconvenient times. A big enough problem to outweigh the benefit of being able to check in, find people, call for help, etc. from nearly anywhere? Absolutely not, but it's still a pretty accurate prediction.
I don't think this is the point of the comic, but rather make some humorous speculation of a tech future.
Sure but AI will wreck us worse than all of them.
Now, let’s talk about meetings.
Τώρα, ας μιλήσουμε για τις συναντήσεις.

my phone hasn't made notification sounds in years except for some particular situations, and I turn notifications off for apps until I know I want them on
it's great
- I use Tasker to make groups of people who can take me off mute when calling (Partner, parents, best friend) and everything else is controlled by timed DND and mute automations (slightly different for personal and work)
- I don't even remember the last time my phone made a sound. Si ce i had a pager that could vibrate i was like: welp, that's it.
- Sounds like you’ve trained your phone to only speak up when it really matters 😂 Honestly, that’s a smart move, constant pings are such a distraction. I kinda wish I had that level of discipline with my notifications.
Massive adoption of smart watches helps this quite a lot. 2 devices ringing or vibrating is quite annoying. People set silent on phone and feel messages on watches.
Honestly that’s one of the biggest reasons I have a watch - my phone has been on vibrate for years but I don’t always notice it, however I always notice the watch vibrate
I’m working on it.
I hate it... When you actually need a person you can't reach them. Is it really so hard to toggle DND? I really haven't got any issue with that.
- Have you considered that they don't want to be reached
- Just call twice in rapid succession, that usually overrides it
It's better to just leave the phone at home....

Petition to bring back calling babies "mites"

I still call one of my kids my little "wiggle worm", from when she hadn't even crawled yet. I'd sing her this old-timey lullaby:
🎵 I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
Before I forget that 🎵
- Does she always hold her breath and listen?

There’s an Everett True energy about this

All that's missing is him just straight up punching the guy into next week.
I've never heard of that guy. Mind to enlighten me?
- The star of some old comics, characterized by being a violent choleric who deals with annoying people. Check out !truecomics@midwest.social.
Totally thought it was until I read your comment and went back to double-check 😅

I haven't been able to find this again, but there's a short film that was made in England in 1946 that perfectly nailed how cell phones were going to work. There was even a man in a grocery store calling his wife at home to find out what ingredient he needed to pick up. The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie, which despite the movie images of an officer using a device about 1'x4"x4", in fact also required a ginormous and heavy backpack thing lugged around by some misbegotten private.

BTW a fun fact: the word "ginormous" (a portmanteau word combining "gigantic" and "enormous") dates to WWII or earlier. I'd always assumed it was valley-girl speak until I encountered it in a Battle of Britain memoir written by a pilot who was killed in 1942.

The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie,
Featuring the svelte and portable Motorolla cellular model from 1988:
Which is an improvement from this beast:

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I momentarily (mis)read the cartoon's title as something like "When we all have pocket teleporters" and thought the first frame was some kind of use case for a 19th/20th century sci-fi pocket teleporter, where said device was activated allowing the person to run faster while chasing the train.

My eyes followed to the second frame and only then I realized the cartoon was about pocket telephones, not pocket teleporters, beeping while being inside the pocket.

A beeping pocket teleporter would be equally annoying, though: "No, I'm not interested in a monthly subscription fee of 42 bars of gold for faster and farther teleporting needs, shut up with your ads, Thomas Edison's Magic Porter Apparatus"