The Strange Fate of the Business Phone Call

Workplace phone-calls used to have rigid, unforgiving specs. The Internet made them weirder

Clive Thompson

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Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

I’ve stopped calling people on the phone.

I realized this the other day while inspecting my mobile-phone bill. Apparently I made only 8 minutes worth of phone calls in all of January. That’s pretty average for me…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net