People do not often consider the telephone to be high technology, and it is neither fashionable, nor nostalgic. Yet the degree of frequency with which we come into contact with the telephone, as well as the degree to which we depend on it makes the telephone a plebeian sort of technology.
While the telephone network has the exceptional qualities of instantaneousness and mobility, one cannot overlook its susceptibility to juvenile violence and introversion as exemplified by prank phone calls, and its fragility as can be seen in cable fires and on-line crime. It is the media that most easily indicates these two major courses being taken by today's technology.
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