Comments on: We’ve Got Your Number http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: David Cushman http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/comment-page-1/#comment-102364 David Cushman Tue, 08 May 2007 16:33:39 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/#comment-102364 Perhaps it's simply that mobile numbers are harder to remember? Typically the dial codes (bar international ones) have nothing to do with location or anything else to make a simple link for us. Anything over 7 digits is notoriously tough to recall. I don't even know my wife's mobile number. But I know loads of people's home numbers from memory. But I get the general point. Same happened to song titles with the move to cds. In the old days of LP records users spent ages reading the covers and assimilating not just the titles, but the lyric sheets too. Now, how do you do on song titles? Oddly enough MP3 swings things the other way - with the graphical displays of titles. Fine - if you aren't driving. Best dc Perhaps it’s simply that mobile numbers are harder to remember? Typically the dial codes (bar international ones) have nothing to do with location or anything else to make a simple link for us. Anything over 7 digits is notoriously tough to recall.
I don’t even know my wife’s mobile number. But I know loads of people’s home numbers from memory.
But I get the general point. Same happened to song titles with the move to cds. In the old days of LP records users spent ages reading the covers and assimilating not just the titles, but the lyric sheets too. Now, how do you do on song titles?
Oddly enough MP3 swings things the other way – with the graphical displays of titles. Fine – if you aren’t driving.
Best dc

]]> By: Anders Borg http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/comment-page-1/#comment-102354 Anders Borg Mon, 07 May 2007 21:23:55 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/#comment-102354 You might find this interesting: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/16/1042520723454.html Admittedly I googled it. I'm also relying on external memory :). You might find this interesting:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/01/16/1042520723454.html
Admittedly I googled it. I’m also relying on external memory :) .

]]> By: Russell Buckley http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/comment-page-1/#comment-102351 Russell Buckley Mon, 07 May 2007 15:26:09 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/#comment-102351 Hi Mark Thanks for the comment. Can you explain a little more and shed some light on my lack of knowledge in this area? Would be interesting to find out more. Thanks Russell Hi Mark

Thanks for the comment.

Can you explain a little more and shed some light on my lack of knowledge in this area? Would be interesting to find out more.

Thanks

Russell

]]> By: Mark H Wilkinson http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/comment-page-1/#comment-102348 Mark H Wilkinson Mon, 07 May 2007 11:56:10 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/07/weve-got-your-number/#comment-102348 <B>“Use it or lose it” is one of the fundamental precepts of evolutionary biology</B> In the Lamarckian theory of evolution, it is. But I think you'll find most evolutionary biologists don't subscribe to that. “Use it or lose it” is one of the fundamental precepts of evolutionary biology

In the Lamarckian theory of evolution, it is. But I think you’ll find most evolutionary biologists don’t subscribe to that.

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