Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Jun 28 2006
Picking up voices
Waiter Rant has a great post on using your cell phone in public. I felt a personal memory come forward when he made the comment about people looking a bit schizophrenic when they use their wireless headsets. We had a man who behaved like that in the small town where I grew up. He had no headset. He walked all over town, talking and waving his arms, moving away from other people and yelling when they got close to him. When we questioned our parents about his behavior they would shush us and tell us he'd been "shell-shocked in the war" and not to stare. I never imagined that more than 40 years later so many people would be behaving just like him because of technological advances. My weird imagination can't help but wonder if that man knew something no else knew about the future of communication.
posted at: 11:38 | category: /Science | link to this entry
Waiter Rant has a great post on using your cell phone in public. I felt a personal memory come forward when he made the comment about people looking a bit schizophrenic when they use their wireless headsets. We had a man who behaved like that in the small town where I grew up. He had no headset. He walked all over town, talking and waving his arms, moving away from other people and yelling when they got close to him. When we questioned our parents about his behavior they would shush us and tell us he'd been "shell-shocked in the war" and not to stare. I never imagined that more than 40 years later so many people would be behaving just like him because of technological advances. My weird imagination can't help but wonder if that man knew something no else knew about the future of communication.
posted at: 11:38 | category: /Science | link to this entry
