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I have to telephone my 25-year-old sons and ask them to talk me through it while I try to push those wretched 41 buttons.
And finally one day, I woke up and I thought perhaps I'd had a stroke, because I lay in bed completely frozen, looking at the telephone, thinking, "Something is wrong and I should call for help," and I couldn't reach out my arm and pick up the phone and dial.
One prominent Bahraini activist, who was arrested and tortured by his government, has said that the interrogators showed him transcripts of his telephone calls and text messages.
Of course, it's no secret that governments are able to intercept telephone calls and text messages.
It's for that reason that many activists specifically avoid using the telephone.
A magazine I'd recently launched called Business 2.0 was fatter than a telephone directory, busy pumping hot air into the bubble.
They had such good infrastructure that even at the time they had a fiber-optic telephone system, long before it had reached Western countries.
Fourth, we need to leapfrog the routes of development, which means, you don't need to go to the landline telephone before you get to the mobile phones.
All we used was a simple "trust the staff" approach and a simple telephone.
We even used to ask job applicants, "Do you have access to a telephone?"
I do not understand numbers, I do not understand the telephone, but it's the only plan I have.
For more than 100 years, the telephone companies have provided wiretapping assistance to governments.
The telephone companies built surveillance features into the very core of their networks.
So what that means is that when you're talking to your spouse, your children, a colleague or your doctor on the telephone, someone could be listening.
Now, that someone might be your own government; it could also be another government, a foreign intelligence service, or a hacker, or a criminal, or a stalker or any other party that breaks into the surveillance system, that hacks into the surveillance system of the telephone companies.
But while the telephone companies have built surveillance as a priority, Silicon Valley companies have not.
What that means is that if the drug dealers' telephone calls or the terrorists' telephone calls can be intercepted, then so can the rest of ours, too.
We need to secure our telephone calls.
You know, if you think about human physiology as a vast global telephone network with interacting nodes and interacting pieces, then all of our medicinal chemistry is operating on one tiny corner at the edge, the outer edge, of that network.
It's like all of our pharmaceutical chemistry is a pole operator in Wichita, Kansas who is tinkering with about 10 or 15 telephone lines.
We never owned a home, a car, a washing machine, and for most of my childhood, we didn't even have a telephone.
The telephone was invented while developing a communication tool for hearing impaired people.
You know, people who can now pay for solar the same way they pay for cards for their telephone.
And it's a good thing to think about producing a work of reference for the average person, and bearing in mind that now we have a basis to work with, but also we have technology, so we can reach out using telephone apps, video, animation.
When you start to factor in all of the ways that we collect fines, supplies like mailers that we send out to remind people of their fines, services, like collections management services, even telephone and email notifications can cost libraries money.
We have a temptation to think about this as, oh, they're just using Snapchat the way we used to gossip on the telephone.
Well, what this misses is that in the 1970s, when you were just gossiping on the telephone, there wasn't a hundred engineers on the other side of the screen who knew exactly how your psychology worked and orchestrated you into a double bind with each other.
If your mother calls on the miserable telephone, she calls and says, "Hello," you not only know who it is, you know what mood she's in.
KB: Nicole, and? (Telephone ringing) KB: Actually, here's the thing, answer it, answer it, answer it.
But modernization actually brought communication and a whole new material, in the form of telephone wire.
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