With the announcement of Google Voice for everyone, the big G describes the history of human communication in the graphic above – and consequently, how Voice is the next step in the evolution. We begin with the tin cans in 1810, to the telephone in 1876, then the first email in 1971, and tada, we arrive at Google Voice in the present. Average international call cost per minute serves as the backdrop.
I gotta get me one of those vintage mobile phones of 1979.
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More interesting might be the rise of email as a substitute for voice, and text as the substitute for email. I spent hours of my after-school teen years on the phone with friends – “What are you doing?” “Nothing, what are you doing?”
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@Susan — Very good point about spending useless time on the phone! I remember that well…and it was before call-waiting so people would get very upset that the phone was busy for so long.
It would be interesting to see the span of technology among the economic classes within last five or so decades. Especially in the 80s when the “in” thing to do was buy techonology to show how “well” you were doing financially and now you can see a homeless person with a cell phone. Techonology has really crossed all bounds.
Oh Google Voice, you will bring an end to cold calling once and for all. Block calls automatically.
Cold calling is now considered spam.
FYI: when you go to the Google Voice page the graphic is higher res and looks much better when enlarged.
Here it is:
http://tiny.cc/3a61w
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