Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 28, 2011

I’m beginning to that was never the case!

I was going to say “hear hear”, but I want to make it clear as a response to the strip, not to comicgos.

When you dialed, say, 9 on a rotory dial phone, did you you know how to reset the dial for the next number?No, the phone did that for you.

I feel like soon WIley will be living in the woods, growing a scraggly beard and writing a long, rambling manifesto kind of thing.

Well I don’t know if we were smarter then, or phones were just dumber.

Similar storyline in today’s Monty by Jim Meddick.. smart phones, ipads.. etc. taking over society. We are all becoming more introverted..

I like my smart phone.

Anyone notice that way too many smart phone users have the old phone ring for a ringtone?

In the old days, you had an operator to do all the hard work for you.

and Apples and BlackBerrys were just part of a balanced diet.

In the old days, we didn’t carry our phones around with us—they stayed at home via land line.

smart phones still aren’t smart enough to work in my house- I have to go outside to find a signal but at least I don’t have to climb a telephone pole-

Only the youngsters are smarter than their smartphones.

You can’t get a signal in my home area. That’s smart?

I have Verizon and only a little service in the Winter time. Leaves kill it in Summer.

Too many machines today have the delusion that they are smarter than I am—or at least that they know what I want.And far too often they’re wrong.

i use a cell instead of a home phone. it has a lot of these “bells and whistles” which i don’t need and don’t use. i have a camera and a computer (among other things my phone provides) and don’t need or want them on my phone. some of these electronics companies should look at providing a phone to be just a phone. i’d get one in aheartbeat.

AMEN!

There was a time when, if our car wouldn’t run, we could open the hood, make a repair, and drive away. Did that make us smarter back then? In some ways we’re painting ourselves into a corner.

Yesterday’s “Monty” illustrates my new GPS. My son’s phone is constantly going off with text alerts. I miss the “good old days” when they couldn’t find you at all.

How many people use all the features in their basic iphone or Blackberry? And that is not counting the apps.

When a huge storm or hurricane comes through, those $ 400 cell phones don’t work cause the towers don’t function. But the old $ 8 land line works just fine.

The “smartphone” is the 21st century version of shackles and chain.

There is one thing worse than the idot talking on his phone at the top of his lungs carrying on a conversation that you don’t want to hear and preventing you from carrying on a conversation at all — and that is:sitting in the stall of a public toilet and hearing this voice in the next stall say sweetly “Hello. How are you?”

I have to agree with comicgos. I don’t think we ever were ever smarter than our phones. Now when a smartphone can open a bag of airline peanuts without blowing a proverbial fuse, then I’ll know we were never smarter.

I lived in an era when phones were connected to the wall by a wire, and televisions recieved their signals over the air. But now you can get TV on your phone. It just costs more, but I guess that’s progress.

It’s reversed for a lot of people – you get the phone over the air, and you need cables for TV… And we knew machines would take over – but we thought they’d be BIG machines!

well he is in the right place.

JSFMIKE ,My $18 cell phone never quit when hurricane Wilma blew through here. I even got voice mail during the storm from a neighbor. My power was out for about four days, not bad, and the cable was out for 17 days, so no internet. I don’t have a land-line but a few people I know lost theirs for a while. I guess it’s the luck of the draw what you lose and what you don’t.

Just have one landline for my use with the FAX and both my TiVos.

I remember when machines did the work and man did thinking

I began to lose my ability to think when they came out with electronic calculators.