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Stross on: the end of voice telephony?
- adrianhoward 14y agoThere's a really nice bit in Demarco & Lister's Peopleware where they relate an alternate reality of somebody selling the phone into an existing productive environment. I don't have a copy to hand but it's basically "So - there's this box that makes this loud ringing noise that interrupts whatever I'm doing at the time? Are you insane!?"
- pavel_lishin 14y agoIf I had this problem - luckily I don't - I'd probably rig it up to a voice-recognition CAPTCHA. "You are trying to reach Pavel Lishin. In order to get his phone to ring, please answer the following question by speaking clearly: What country is Pavel from?" If they do not know where I am from, they do not know me well enough to call my hypothetical landline. Shit, I wonder if I could hook that up to Google voice.