Isreal is one of the most wired countries, but I didn’t know it had gone this far. Let’s hope this person lived to a ripe old age and didn’t die while talking on a cell phone while driving. (ht: Stuart Longin)
Death in the Silicon Wadi
April 19, 2005 - 7:32 am
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What’s the number listed on the tombstone? I’ll give them a call.
Are we sure this is a real photo and not something that someone did in Photoshop?
No, Im not sure, but it’s funny anyway. The folks over at wired.net, who you would think were savvy about such things, seem to be accepting it, at least so far.
DT: You’ll need a ridiculous number of bars for that call. If you get through, pls identify your provider.
I was there in the very early 90′s and was shocked to see a person on the beach using his cell to talk to friend just a few hundred feet away….not to find each other on the beach, just to BS.
Sadly, it was the danger of the living environment and the exponentially heightened need to be able to check on your loved ones quickly that paved the way for its swift cultural permeation. I pray that need soon becomes merely an interesting historical anecdote.
OT:
New Pope? This just in from NYT:
“Cheers in St. Peter’s Square as Crowd Reacts to Smoke Signal; No Bells So Far to Confirm New Pope”
This photo actually inspired me to flights of poetry. If anyone is interested (and it’s hard to imagine that anyone would be), see here.
Roger, you misspelled “Israel”. (I wonder if you misspelled “weird” as well…)
Sometimes it seems, these days, as though Israelis are born with cell-phones attached. (They certainly never let go of them after that.)
Several years ago, when Israeli cell-phone usage had not yet reached epidemic proportions, the Jerusalem Post ran a story about people grieving at a graveside service… when a cell phone went off. Everyone looked around suspiciously, wondering who had the cell phone and was rude enough to have left it on during a funeral? You guessed it — it was the dead man’s cell phone, which his wife had chosen to bury with him.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
Looks like an old Motorola StarTac. Interesting to know when the person passed on, as that model passed on about three years ago.
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