tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93722064719555333.post1783064879014293113..comments2024-02-28T06:32:17.919-08:00Comments on Star Wars Modern: 2H2K - January 2050: LoaneRsstarwarsmodernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06128785816151813198noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93722064719555333.post-56266861228199206642014-03-12T12:15:03.425-07:002014-03-12T12:15:03.425-07:00Its tough; perhaps I was a little sloppy in the wa...Its tough; perhaps I was a little sloppy in the way I use the word "phone" here, since the "phone" I am describing is no longer a discrete device, but just an application of a more general device (Jo's "pRime").<br /><br />I imagine the pRime less as a "smart phone", or "portable computer" and more akin to home, or primary, computer So a pRime is used for lots of things, including as a phone. <br /><br />As for the disappearance of the word phone, I've given a lot of thought about the way language might change, that we might abandon a word as dominant as "phone" seems entirely unlikely. Even if "being on the phone" once referred to speaking into a discrete object tethered to the wall, we now use it to mean remote speaking. Unless the Singularity has swept us all up in some kind of nano bot geek rapture, transforming all matter in the solar system into a matrioshka brain occupied by god-like super intelligences, then we will still be little hairless apes with a fondness for remote speaking, and the word "phone" having great first-mover advantage, will still be the word we use to describe that activity. starwarsmodernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06128785816151813198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93722064719555333.post-54173086412385003472014-03-12T00:59:21.183-07:002014-03-12T00:59:21.183-07:00If this is your idea of a future reality, then you...If this is your idea of a future reality, then you have mistakenly used many words which won't even exist in 2050! The word 'phone' being just one of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com