Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
Dumb Phone
...There’s also the increasingly evident problem that having all your critical data on a communications device is a fundamental and intractable risk. The dis-integrated business telephony environment of the 1950s–1990s maintained data isolation between elements. Telephone numbers served as the reasonably-viable data-exchange-and-linking interface between components (map a name or address to a number, enter the number on a calendar or correspondence, etc.).
It’s almost as if putting your filing system, personal diary, correspondence, photo album, and directory on a surveillance and exfiltration device was a Bad Idea. ...
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Dumb Phone
Dumb Phone Elsewhere a friend laments: The frequency with which I need my email and a notebook while I'm on the phone makes integrated devices foolish. I'd covered that point a few years ago in a larger essay on the tyranny of the minimum viable user (https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyranny_of_the_minimum_viable_user/): It's also interesting to consider what the operating environment of earlier phones was -- because it exceeded the device itself. A business-use phone of, say, the 1970s, existed in a loosely-integrated environment comprising: The user The phone itself A Rolodex or addressbook / contacts list The local PBX -- the business's dedicated internal phone switch. A secretary or switchboard operator, serving also as a message-taking (voice-to-text), screening, redirect, directory, interactive voice response, and/or calendaring service A desk calendar A phone book A diary or organiser Scratch paper Critically: these components operated simultaneously a...