- verifiedClive Thompson on the Death of the Phone Call
My phone bills are shrinking. Not, unfortunately, in price. I mean they’re getting shorter. I recently found an old bill from a decade ago; it was fully 15 pages big, because back then I was making a ton of calls—about 20 fancy-distance ones a day. Today my bills are a meager two or three pages, at most.
Odds are this has happened to you, too. According to Nielsen, the average numeral of mobile phone calls we thrive is dropping every year, after hitting a high point in 2007. And our calls are getting shorter: In 2005 they averaged three minutes in eventually; now they’re almost half that.
We’re going, in other words, toward a fascinating cultural transmutation: the death of the telephone call. This deflection is particularly stark among the teenaged. Some college students I recollect go days without talking into their smartphones at all. I was recently hanging out with a twentysomething entrepreneur who fumbled around for 30 seconds taxing to find the option that actually let him dial someone.
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