Tag Archives: telephony

Have we passed peak phone?

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Doc Searls

I shot this picture with my phone on the subway last night, while no less absorbed in my personal rectangle than everyone else on the subway (and I do mean everyone) was with theirs. I don’t know what the other passengers were … Continue reading →

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The Giant Zero

Posted on February 3, 2016 by Doc Searls

The world of distance Fort Lee is the New Jersey town where my father grew up. It’s at the west end of the George Washington Bridge, which he also helped build. At the other end is Manhattan. Even though Fort … Continue reading →

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Speeding on the Subway

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Doc Searls

At the uptown end of the 59th Street/Columbus Circle subway platform there hangs from the ceiling a box with three disks on fat stalks, connected by thick black cables that run to something unseen in the downtown direction. Knowing a … Continue reading →

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