Ember, Triune 🎶🔆🔥⚡️ is a user on awoo.space. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.
Technology!
Via my phone while coming home from work, I have:
-deposited my paycheck
-paid my insurance
-balanced my budget
-coordinated with partner regarding dinner
-ordered dinner
-wrote this toot
All without saying a word. :-)
"Phone" is increasingly an anachronistic term.
I keep thinking "comm" or even "PADD" is more accurate. :-)
@emanate “smartphone”: a battery-operated high-performance pocket-sized computer with radio connections to up to six simultaneous computer networks, with unreliable software to send dubious-quality real-time audio over a the most poorly-secured of these networks and more reliable software to watch cat videos with mathematically strong encryption
@emanate I propose "Pocket Otter"
@emanate We say “handset”.