tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post5849755089276747137..comments2023-07-16T04:38:04.407-05:00Comments on Spinuzzi: The phone is the new identity locusClay Spinuzzihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13356273383001825508noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post-16858173707471893822008-06-09T21:57:00.000-05:002008-06-09T21:57:00.000-05:00Right. As a kid, I lived on 13 acres of property, ...Right. As a kid, I lived on 13 acres of property, and we had wired the phone to an outside bell so that we could hear it anywhere on the property. If we heard the bell ring, the rule was to sprint to the house and answer it before the fifth ring. We didn't think, we just sprinted.<BR/><BR/>The problem, of course, was that although people would act as if they were calling people - "I'm going to give Clay a call" - they were actually calling a location. That Rolodex, with its home and office numbers, was really a list of locales that could be contacted. If someone could sprint fast enough to answer your call, you might be able to make contact and ask for the party you were trying to contact.<BR/><BR/>Now we call *people*. The shift is so total that I get very tense if someone calls my mobile trying to reach my wife, or if my wife has to borrow my mobile because she has forgotten hers. (To me, that's like forgetting one's arm.) The phone is the identity.Clay Spinuzzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13356273383001825508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post-19716002687540343132008-06-09T20:00:00.000-05:002008-06-09T20:00:00.000-05:00Totally agree with you.Pundits keep saying that em...Totally agree with you.<BR/><BR/>Pundits keep saying that email is the original social network, but to me, phone numbers have always preceded email as the OG social network. Cell phones let you contact me wherever I am. Not to mention that my phone can even get email now.<BR/><BR/>Mobility is the future and nothing is as mobile as the, well, mobile phone.Cesarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07511693900498476948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post-2004192532090100002008-06-09T19:55:00.000-05:002008-06-09T19:55:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Cesarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07511693900498476948noreply@blogger.com