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by Jedd
3344 days ago
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> I view these as modern-day human "shock collars" where the shock collar beneficiary is actually not you ... Heh. I grew up in the days before mobile phones. A friend observed, when I mentioned my shiny new pager indicating a certain level of Importance in the workforce, that these devices made both parties happy. The carrier felt smug about being so important they were paid - whatever it was, some small number of $'s a day - to be on call. The person on the other end of the equation had eager and proficient technical resources at their beck and call 24x7 ... for some small number of $'s a day. And some people say that the tech industry keeps going in circles. |
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