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Using smartphone to get the time isn’t better than dialing POPCORN if we just squander it
Perspective
1928 time operator
A phone company “time operator” in 1928 in Chicago before technology replaced such workers with a recorded voice.
Back in the Dark Ages before people took a byte out of the Apple, if you didn’t have a watch or there wasn’t a wall clock around with a big hand and a small hand and you needed to know what time it was, you’d ask Ma.