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Without a shadow of a doubt the best cartoon (and SO true) that I have seen this year - and this afternoon two schoolgirls walked past my house texting each other on their mobiles, one on each side of the road!  You really couldn't make it up!

On opposite sides of the road?

I've seen them texting each other when on the same side!

Utter madness.

 

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Without a shadow of a doubt the best cartoon (and SO true) that I have seen this year - and this afternoon two schoolgirls walked past my house texting each other on their mobiles, one on each side of the road!  You really couldn't make it up!

How do you know that they were texting each other?

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Without a shadow of a doubt the best cartoon (and SO true) that I have seen this year - and this afternoon two schoolgirls walked past my house texting each other on their mobiles, one on each side of the road!  You really couldn't make it up!

Perhaps Issac Asimov's story 'The Naked Sun' wasn't that far-fetched and is a look into the future, as computing devices set us apart from actual contact?

 

Warning spoiler alert in the last 3 paragraphs of plot.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun

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Without a shadow of a doubt the best cartoon (and SO true) that I have seen this year - and this afternoon two schoolgirls walked past my house texting each other on their mobiles, one on each side of the road!  You really couldn't make it up!

 

 

On opposite sides of the road?

I've seen them texting each other when on the same side!

Utter madness.

 

Keith

 

I've seen my daughter and her friend messaging each other from opposite ends of the settee in the lounge, when asked why they didn't just talk to each other I got that oh my god dad look!

 

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I've seen my daughter and her friend messaging each other from opposite ends of the settee in the lounge, when asked why they didn't just talk to each other I got that oh my god dad look!

 

Mike.

 

They don't want you to hear what their they're chatting about...

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Perhaps Issac Asimov's story 'The Naked Sun' wasn't that far-fetched and is a look into the future, as computing devices set us apart from actual contact?

 

Warning spoiler alert in the last 3 paragraphs of plot.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun

 

Also see E.M. Forster's short story "The Machine Stops"(Pub. 1909), which describes a future Earth as one in which humanity exists underground as individuals in standard apartments which they rarely leave, their needs being met by an omnipotent machine. "Instant messaging" and video machines enable them to communicate with others and occupy themselves in passing on derived knowledge and opinions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

Read the story at http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

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Also see E.M. Forster's short story "The Machine Stops"(Pub. 1909), which describes a future Earth as one in which humanity exists underground as individuals in standard apartments which they rarely leave, their needs being met by an omnipotent machine. "Instant messaging" and video machines enable them to communicate with others and occupy themselves in passing on derived knowledge and opinions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

Read the story at http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

 

Well worth a read - and amazingly prescient considering when it was written.

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