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> I wonder if in the future people will wonder why they are called phone companies?

Similarly, I keep wondering if the word "phone" might annex the word "computer" entirely. If most people call their day-to-day pocket computer a "phone", what's to stop people calling every computer a non-pocket phone?

Some classic "futurism" ads of AT&T from back in the monopoly era (50s/60s) always had that interesting assumption that phones would be everywhere and do everything. We seem to have brought that future about ironically enough, just that the definition of "phone" is changing so drastically, and also that there are a lot fewer AT&T logos on everything.



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