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Re:What We Get Wrong About Technology by Retra on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:06PM (#15129441)
Public videophones could be made right now, if we wanted. Problem is that nobody wants them because they are less convenient than the simpler alternatives.
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Re:What We Get Wrong About Technology by chi17 on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @11:20PM (#15129494)
The simpler alternatives involve having to pay a monthly fee or having to pre-pay for minutes. In the future, perhaps we won't have the luxury of paying for a lot of service we haven't yet used and might not need to use.
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Re:What We Get Wrong About Technology by dmitriid on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:55AM (#15129973)
Welcome to the present, called "the rest of the world that's not the US" ;)

(yeah, yeah, I know that many countries still have outrageous prices for networks, be it fiber or mobile).

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