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>> Phone numbers are obsolete, ... Let's not get carried away, this is not true at all. Even outside of tech circles, there are plenty of people that have no i

• jorgeortiz85 15y ago
  I type a phone number exactly once. When I enter it into my contact book. After that, I only ever tap a person's name. Phone numbers are definitely obsolete.
  • zecho 15y ago
    Nitpick: This is like saying handlebars on a bicycle are obsolete because you only have to install them once. Phone numbers are abstracted, but they are definitely not obsolete.
  • davweb 15y ago
    You could use the same argument to say IP Address are obsolete because of DNS, but I don't think IP addresses or phone numbers are going away any time soon.
    • parfe 15y ago
      IP(v4) addresses are going away though! No one but the network staff will notice. Semantically, choosing "obsolete" might have been incorrect, but I think the point stands. IP address and phone numbers don't matter anymore to the end users.
• sycren 15y ago
  Thats true, but I think there could be a way around that if we had a domain name service for telephone numbers whereby instead of having to remember a 12-10 digit number with area codes for someone, we only need to remember a word or sentence and since a string (lower alphabet only) is base 26 it might be easier. Also could we not run out of phone numbers anyway like with ipv4?
  • admg 15y ago
    Thats happened in the UK before, for my home town anyway. They just added an extra digit to the number after the area code.