The coming of the AI Phone

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So now we get the AI phone. I can already see an AI phone getting stuck in a loop and calling itself. https://www.businessinsider.com/screen-free-ai-powered-smartphone-set-debut-humane-verge-report-2023-11?op=1 I did not think that smart phones has evolved beyond smart yet, but anyway. Sometimes we forget how fast technology really evolves. A little while ago in antique store I saw two teenagers gawking at an item. They had absolutely no idea what the antique item was. So they asked me and my sister for help. We explained that the item they were looking at was a rotary phone, in good condition circa 1990 or so. Rather astutely, they were not concerned about the portability probabilities of this phone (zero of course), but the operational aspects gave rise to great confusion. So we demonstrated and explained. Pick up the handset, wait for dial tone, now stick your finger in the little hole over the first digit you want to dial and turn clockwise to the stop and let go. Now rather quickly, get onto the next digit and do the same. Repeat until you have dialled the complete number. You'll hear the ringing on the other side and the person will pick if they are there or available to talk. Again, rather astutely they could figure out that imaging and texting is not going to happen and also that the people on the receiving end will never who is calling unless they actually answer. So we thought they got the gist of how to actually make a phone call. Until... "But where do you store the numbers on the phone?" Oh Man. Luckily the owner of the antique store had one of those alphabetical telephone books and we could explain to them that you write the person's name with the number down, and, if you cannot memorise it, look it up every time you want to use it. "And you people actually did this! How retarded!" was the response. We had a good laugh! So probably the next step will be the phone sensing who you want to talk to Image from pinterest loaded directly from a search