It was 30 years ago today that the first mobile phone call was officially made. This appears to have provided the cue for all the “experts” out there to start taking the piss.
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Vodafone has released this video of some kids examining one of the first mobile phones. Maybe it’s just me, but what it shows is how bloody stupid some of today’s kids are. Note the one who reckons the world would have been “in black & white” before mobile phones, and the one who would like future incarnations to turn her “into a fairy”. They need some serious education… and quick!
I got my first mobile phone back in 1994, and I can well remember some of the comments I got from my friends. Like “why do you need one of those?” and “why do you want people to be able to contact you when you’re out?” Of course, the cost of a call – it was more than the BT local land line rate – was always the favourite target (in actual fact, I had always been on a pay monthly contract, and I started out with Orange, and stayed with them, so my calls were never in the 40p per minute range of the crappy analogue phones). Now, they all rely on them.
But why is it that people take the piss out of the past? The present is always at the forefront of technology, and it becomes history tomorrow. Each day is a step forward in terms of technology – tomorrow couldn’t exist without today anymore than today could exist without yesterday. So why ridicule it?