NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Dank Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoA more realistic futurelemmy.worldimagemessage-square118linkfedilinkarrow-up1796arrow-down113
arrow-up1783arrow-down1imageA more realistic futurelemmy.worldNickwithaC@lemmy.world to Dank Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square118linkfedilink
minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down16·edit-23 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-squarepsyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoLet’s unbuild all the roads for a fair comparison then.
minus-squareI_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAircraft are a better analogy I guess. No infrastructure needed other than the end points.
minus-squarepsyklax@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAnd the air traffic controllers, and the regulated airspace…
minus-squarescutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI don’t know about you, but I remember a time when everyone had a landline.
minus-squareThatGuy46475@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 months 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