The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
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The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.
Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
We take better care of our smartphones than we do of ourselves - the phones are always recharged!
When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.
The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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