you would continue to do so and hope no-one noticed the touch tone, cordless, video capable, answering machine equiped models alongside it on the shelf?Lets not forget the latest greatest dialer that takes up half the room, with "EF" emblazoned proudly on it.
I'm reminded of an experience when I first declared my intention to leave medicine (temporarily) to undertake some IT work. An ancient venerable professor came to me to warn me that "sometimes cool new technologies are like the Pyramids. You can't help but be impressed by the majesty and sheer effort that they represent. But what do they actually do?"
;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
