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"Yeah, and nobody writes letters anymore!" - Grandpa "Are you kidding? Too many people write things down, it causes forgetfulness." - Socrates I don't see wha

"Yeah, and nobody writes letters anymore!" - Grandpa "Are you kidding? Too many people write things down, it causes forgetfulness." - Socrates I don't see what value a 2 minute conversation with a human who is essentially following a script and pressing the same buttons on their end that you could have pushed on yours has. Despite the audio portion of the human's voice, this is still an extremely shallow form of human interaction. You are better off saving the time and having a more meaningful connection with someone else later.

paganel 8y ago
Then you have to wonder: why speak with non-strangers at all? Apart from a couple of friends and close family pretty much all human interactions are “shallow” by definition. You might see that as a “bug” that wastes us time but instead I see it as a feature that helps us remain in one congruent piece as a functioning society. Thanks for bringing Socrates into the discussion, but I think Asimov is more suited for it, I’m thinking of one of his stories where sometime in the future humans live isolated from each other on big farms, surrounded only by robots, with all communications happening through some sort of screens (if I remember correctly).