Cell phone ringtones

This blog was supposed to be about ring tones, but I changed my mind. I decided to write about the evolution of the phone instead. This rant is inspired by a VG comic that I read ages ago.

Now lets start from the very beginning of communication. After developping a written language, there was the whole letter writing dealio and such, which was great but slow and unreliable if you were trying to write to anyone overseas because you had a great chance of losing your letter on the bottom of the sea.

Then we had the telegraph and homing pigeons. I must admit, THAT was really cool. I mean it's like, train this bird to go there. I wonder tho, did homing pigeons fly back or did they ahve to be sent back? But neway, this form was more reliable for sure than the letter sending over the sea, but still kind of annoying in that it was freaking expensive. So when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, life suddenly got a whole lot more convenient. But what were we to do when we we are anxiously waiting for someone or lost in the middle of somewhere unable to find that person's house where that cool party is at. For this, we invented... the cellphone.

Cellphones are not necessities, I mean we lived fine without them, just needed better organization. But now when someone organizes some sort of gathering, they just say, alright be hereabouts by such and such a time and call me. If you were caught saying something like that in the 1300s they would have burned you at the stake as a witch :P Now, if you don't have a cell phone, you inconvenience everyone by making them actually plan things out! Horror of horrors!

But then, have you noticed that we're reverting to a more primitive sort of communication, that is the written word? I mean, blogs are a perfect example, or text msging, or MSN. ANd yet at the same time these things have made people even MORE connected, so then does this mean that we've gone to a more primitive form of communication or a more advanced primitive form of communication? Did that make sense?

Anyhow, yeah. Ciao.