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There’s still a lot of payphones in my country. They’re free now and no longer accept money and they also provide free wifi. Recently I’ve been seeing signs on them that kids can call Santa
Australia? My guess/ memory is that they earn more from advertising than the cost to maintain them. I think that’s more dystopian. An ageing technology is allowed to keep using public spaces to advertise of they frame it as a public good.
Idk I don’t mind that the very poor that don’t have phones still have an option to make phone calls. I know a lot of victims of abuse use them as a way to make phone calls that aren’t monitored by their abusive partner. The homeless can use them, or maybe your phone died. I don’t recall seeing ads on them but I’m not exactly looking out for payphones.
Plus I’d hardly can a phone call “ageing technology”. I mean yes it’s an old technology, but still very relevant especially for those that don’t have other means of contact
I thought poor people were given free government-paid smartphones? Anyone who qualifies for food stamps can get a free smartphone. Is that no longer a thing? Last time I checked that was around 2016 I guess.
Only if you are super poor enough to qualify, and have time and the capacity to jump through all the hoops to get one, and you live somewhere that there is a provider that has coverage, and ect, ect., then you can get a discount on your cell plan. For some people who are “lucky enough” to be super poor enough, the discount can actually be enough to make the phone essentially $0.
In the US that’s true but don’t remind them or they’ll take it away!
I think they are still around because the government told them they can’t remove them. They are considered a public resource. Remember, Telstra used to be a government entity before it was privatised.
The Telstra pay phone boxes near me now all have massive ridiculously bright screens displaying advertisements. For sure that is their primary purpose now.
Recently I’ve been seeing signs on them that kids can call Santa
That’s adorable :)
And Superman doesn’t have a place to change.
They made fun of that all the way back in Superman The Movie (1978)
Superman almost never changed in a phone booth. He did it in two episodes of the old cartoon and the NES and Atari games, that’s it.
And the radio shows.
It’s gotten worse: People don’t want to phone with their phone anymore.
Some people. Plenty still do
Watch the AniMatrix.
There are other ways… to get out.
… they are just exceptionally difficult to pull off, and can only be pulled off by exceptional individuals.
… … and they also do not tend to involve a real world hovercraft crew waiting to retrieve your emaciated, atrophied and basically blind body.
You’re on your own.
The only one I remember was the kid jumping off the building. What others were there?
I can’t believe there was never a scandal about the short that suggests you can leave “The Matrix” by jumping to your death.
tetris11 got it, the sprinter from World Record.
Essentially, he’s such a top tier athlete, so determined, that he… breaks through the veil of ‘reality’, in his pursuit of greatness.
Whereas the kid… has an incredibly certain sense of belief in … more or less, the idea of Neo as a transcended individual, as a kind of means of attaining his own transendence.
… MxO went into more of these methods of either escaping or becoming aware of the Matrix, independently, as basically class build archetypes…
But I have absolutely no idea what the ‘canon’ status of any of it is, at this point.
Probably just ‘not canon’, I don’t know.
Its also doubly confusing because back when MxO was running… different server shards actually experienced different ‘storylines’, due to there being a … roughly every 3 or 6 month … sort of faction competition for which variant of a major plot point would play out in which way.
So… these different shards all experienced kind of fundentally opposed ‘canons’.
… but nobody remembers any of that, these days.
But at the same time…we are our choices and our memories.
Its also possible that… MxO, or a sequel to it was the video game that Neo was working on in Matrix 4.
So… who knows, really, hahah!
yeah but the earth was a better place to live then
Well, the Matrix previously simulated a utopia but the humans still rebelled. Then, the Matrix simulated 1999 Earth.
The 1990s was the most peaceful and prosperous time in humanity. This is not universal, if you were in Russia, Rwanda or the Yugoslavia, but overall there was fewer conflict. Humanity as a whole was riding high on the end of cold war, democratisation, and economic growth.
a utopia but the humans still rebelled.
Humans will complain no matter what. There is catharsis.
Some might even say the peak of our civilization
Put down smartphone. Pick up dumb phone.
#2deep4me
Don’t they use a cell phone in the second one?
No, the 4th one.
They use mirrors, mostly.
No, that’s the fourth movie.
Pretty sure they could use a cellphone to jack out in Ressurections.
They used mirrors in that film
The payphones are still available in my country in case of emergencies. They were refurbished and less dirty than they were in the past. But funny enough, some payphones were converted as first aid stations. As much as our government can be deliberately inefficient and corrupt, they are good with adapting to changing times to keep some public services relevant. One thing I’m proud of is our postal service, which branched out to mobile network operator and banking to stay relevant.
Wasn’t Neo mailed a Nokia 8110 to use?
As a burner, not an exit device.
Should have gone for the plan with all the extras included…
that was to communicate. to actually leave they had to have a landline.
We still have just as many landlines, if not more. They are just internet connections now. Probably even more suitable for connecting to the real world.
