....and now I feel old lol

I understood about 40% of that communications strategy.

Address numbers on business buildings, or painted on curbs

Good Humor ice cream trucks

Hiking boots that don't leak

Leaded gas

Me too!
All I know is we have three different mobile numbers, but our phones are not always at our fingertips. Mine is often in my bag.
One call to the landline will get an answer 90% of the time.

I've lived without a landline before.
It was limiting then and I think it would be now.
0800 numbers, 0845 numbers, verification of address, many job applications etc.

And we know how reliably available I am with a mobile phone *grins*

Odds on at any one time if someone tries to contact me, I'll have left the bastard on silent, lost it in the back of a taxi cab or just lost the signal in my stupid communications blackhole of a house :p

honestly i think it has less to do with age and more to do with having had to learn how to live on a single low income with a 3 member household; its the petty things you really don't want to have to look for or think about, but once you did its sort of worth it regardless of your economical situation.

back to topic:
toilet paper in japan (bidet + drier + awesome toilet sits).

Films that fade over time. Look at tv and movies from the 80s and they look faded. Even the early 90s. That won't happen with digital media. It'll be aged by what it's showing and the quality of the effects possible, but the image will be as clear and the colours as sharp as on day one.

Poverty. aw shit that's still going on

This is the opening paragraph of a Must Read book, In the Absence of the Sacred written in 1991.

When I first read this book, I bought 25 copies of it and gave them away to friends.

The Author also wrote Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

We got rid of the land line recently. Paid for one that we never used for three years. Only calls we got were around dinner time..."Hi I'd like to talk to you about..." We each have a mobile, my mobile number hasn't changed in at least 4 years I put it on anything that asks for my number. I like the mobile phone, took me a while to catch on myself, but I really do like the benefit of the technology.

ok so the next step:

1. do you have wireless internet connection? if not, set one up.
2. is your phone an android smart phone? if not, check your provider if you can (this might be an option on the iphone but i can't say for certain).

if or when the ansewr to both is yes, download an widget/app to turn on and off data. when your at home, turn it off.

download skype to your mobile and get a skype number or (if your in the US) download google voice and get a google voice number.

in the settings to either one you set it up to redirect to your actual mobile phone number.

then you give your new skype/google-voice number to your friends and family.

if you are calling or recieving calls when your at home or in any public area with wifi, you can answer from your mobiles, your doing it for free.

saves a lot of money.

cool! missed the mark on fax, synthetic fibers, and antibiotics, whatever. Times, they are a'changin'!

Interesting! I looked up when the first synthetic fibers were made and there seems to be a distinction between synthetic and artificial. Cellulose acetate, for example is made from processed cellulose and not strictly a synthetic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fiber

He was a few years off with Antibiotics and almost a century off with fax machines! Holy cats, who knew fax machines were that old?