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Why do you care? The reality is that most human conversations are fluff. If you could listen in on everyone's cell phone calls, do you think they would sound v
by paul 19y ago
Why do you care?
The reality is that most human conversations are fluff. If you could listen in on everyone's cell phone calls, do you think they would sound very different?
- aristus 19y agoDoug Adams had a story about that, coincidentally involving birds: Aurthur Dent taught himself the language of birds. It turned out that birds are mostly chattering about the wind, and seeds, and who got whose feathers ruffled, etc. Humans are crashingly boring. We fart, we scratch, we worry about our hair and our petty insecurities.
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- blueberryipod 19y agoTHE Aurthur Dent? I miss him so...
- brlewis 19y agoDarn it Paul, every technologist has to dream about his or her technology making the world a better place. We want to think the Internet will improve how people communicate. If you were around back then, whoever invented television would have instead gone home sulking. Of course, you would have been right. And maybe that would be a good thing. But stop raining on our parade anyway!
- wallflower 19y agoTwitter is small talk. As much as I sometimes cringe at the banality of "How are you?", it's important because it is not important.