Sooner or later technology will make us sad. It's already taken letter writing away from us...and who uses the house phone these days? E-mails, cellys and social networking let us know us exactly what our homeslices are doing hour by hour.(Even if it is so mundane you want to poke yourself in the eye). When generation Demolition Man kicks in we might get so cushy with online communication that we just quit speaking altogether and live on a diet of Taco Bell.
All this old school communication nostalgia was triggered by a nice article on Guardian music about telephones and music, which is here.
A telephone.
Yes that old yellowing thing mounted to the kitchen wall that you yell into from time to time.
