{"id":14343,"date":"2010-04-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/04\/13\/its-a-miracle-humanity-has-survived-this-far-if-reaction-to-the-inability-to-make-or-receive-a-telephone-call-is-to-be-believed\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:00:00","slug":"its-a-miracle-humanity-has-survived-this-far-if-reaction-to-the-inability-to-make-or-receive-a-telephone-call-is-to-be-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100413-00\/?p=14343","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s a miracle humanity has survived this far, if reaction to the inability to make or receive a telephone call is to be believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the mailing lists devoted to chatting among people who work in a particular cluster of Microsoft office buildings, there was some discussion of the quality of mobile phone coverage in the parking garage.\n &#8220;I can&#8217;t get a signal in any of the underground levels. This is intolerable!&#8221;\n &mdash; <i>Here&#8217;s an idea: Walk to ground level and make your call there.<\/i>\n &#8220;But what if it&#8217;s an emergency?&#8221;\n &mdash; <i>Then run.<\/i>\n (Or use one of the emergency phones.)\n Sometimes I wonder how humanity had managed to survive prior to the installation of mobile phone cell towers. Had these people been born just 30 years earlier, they wouldn&#8217;t have been able to get through everyday life, having <a href=\"http:\/\/socio.ch\/mobile\/t_geser1.htm#4.4\"> never developed their ability<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/12\/30\/9256451.aspx#9257497\"> plan anything in advance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> I remember the days when it was common for people <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/12\/30\/9256451.aspx#9258793\"> not to be reachable for (gasp) hours at a time<\/a>. You couldn&#8217;t even leave a message at the beep; you just had to try again later. It apparently is a miracle that our species didn&#8217;t go extinct. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the mailing lists devoted to chatting among people who work in a particular cluster of Microsoft office buildings, there was some discussion of the quality of mobile phone coverage in the parking garage. &#8220;I can&#8217;t get a signal in any of the underground levels. This is intolerable!&#8221; &mdash; Here&#8217;s an idea: Walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-14343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In one of the mailing lists devoted to chatting among people who work in a particular cluster of Microsoft office buildings, there was some discussion of the quality of mobile phone coverage in the parking garage. &#8220;I can&#8217;t get a signal in any of the underground levels. This is intolerable!&#8221; &mdash; Here&#8217;s an idea: Walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}