{"id":4009,"date":"2021-12-12T06:42:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/12\/dialling-up-a-new-way-of-life-in-1986\/"},"modified":"2021-12-12T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:42:09","slug":"dialling-up-a-new-way-of-life-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/12\/dialling-up-a-new-way-of-life-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialling up a new way of life in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stress tips, oysters and buying your own star\u2026 Back in the 80s they had big plans for what the humble telephone was going to do for us all<\/p>\n

\u2018Some thoughts on the phone,\u2019 the Observer Magazine<\/em> cover of 2 November 1986, with its nod to Rodin\u2019s The Thinker<\/em>, was not, in fact, a philosophical treatise on the nature of human communication but a guide to the many goods and services one could then buy over the phone.<\/p>\n

The introduction began with one eye clearly on BT\u2019s recent privatisation in 1984 \u2013 \u2018Dial P for Privatisation, a nasty new phone book and commercially sponsored pips.\u2019 It was also the beginning of BT\u2019s speaking clock sponsored by Accurist, beloved of pranksters who would call its premium-rate line at friends\u2019 homes and leave it to rack up costs. I\u2019m saying nothing.<\/p>\n

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\nStress tips, oysters and buying your own star\u2026 Back in the 80s they had big plans for what the humble telephone was going to do for us all\u2018Some thoughts on the phone,\u2019 the Observer Magazine cover of 2 November 1986, with its nod to Rodin\u2019s The Thinker, was not, in fact, a philosophical treatise on the nature of human communication but a guide to the many goods and services one could then buy over the phone.
\nThe introduction began with one eye clearly on BT\u2019s recent privatisation in 1984 \u2013 \u2018Dial P for Privatisation, a nasty new phone book and commercially sponsored pips.\u2019 It was also the beginning of BT\u2019s speaking clock sponsored by Accurist, beloved of pranksters who would call its premium-rate line at friends\u2019 homes and leave it to rack up costs. I\u2019m saying nothing. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stress tips, oysters and buying your own star\u2026 Back in the 80s they had big plans for what the humble telephone was going to do for us all \u2018Some thoughts on the phone,\u2019 the Observer Magazine cover of 2 November 1986, with its nod to Rodin\u2019s The Thinker, was not, in fact, a philosophical treatise …<\/p>\n

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