{"id":10,"date":"2004-12-16T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/16\/no-phone-experiment\/"},"modified":"2004-12-16T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T16:23:58","slug":"no-phone-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"No Phone Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, sorry, not so many posts lately.  I was away and then quite busy with some good stuff going on with our company! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot to catch up on.  Ill start here and hopefully will get to more today.<\/p>\n<p>I was in Tahoe over the weekend taking a little R &amp; R and snowboarding happily throughout the blissful landscape and sunshine (ahhhh California skiing).  While there, my friend and I accidentally ran a little experiment by accident.  Neither of us took our phones with us for the whole day.  While I have to admit it was a most peaceful experience, it also cause a series of mishaps which inevitably caused someone to leave early.  Yup.  One of our friends, who had driven up from LA, went to a different mountain and tried feverishly to try to contact us throughout the day to make plans, etc.  But because he couldn&#8217;t get a hold of us all day, he assumed something was strange and when we returned back to the cabin he was gone&#8230; back to LA!!!  Had we just returned one of his calls or text messages he would have been there to enjoy the warm fire afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the next day we took our phones&#8230; and all communication was blissful, all plans were good, and all friends happy.<\/p>\n<p>While this was a bit extreme it just follows up to my last post, in that no one knows what to do anymore when the phones aren&#8217;t working or not around.  This was the most extreme example that has probably ever happened to me.  I mean, a 9 hour drive because of no phone!!!  While, both of us with out phones, knew that we would just meet him at the cabin afterwards, something in side the him said &#8220;this is odd&#8221; and thought something otherwise.   Crazy?  Perhaps.  A sign of the times? Definitely.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile is more than just technology.  It&#8217;s a lifestyle. But it&#8217;s even more than that&#8230; I&#8217;ve been trying to put my finger on some terminology that will describes the pattern of communication that mobile phones offer&#8230; it offers real-time communication, and semi-real-time, and asynchronous, but it offers it all&#8230;  more on that later.<\/p>\n<p>-Anita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, sorry, not so many posts lately. I was away and then quite busy with some good stuff going on with our company! \ud83d\ude42 I have a lot to catch up on. Ill start here and hopefully will get to more today. I was in Tahoe over the weekend taking a little R &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}