The Telephone Repair Handbook by Mark Pesce
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
Today, all human communication is threaded, multi-participatory, multimodal, asynchronous, proximally indistinct, ubiquitous, continuous, and entirely pervasive. Given this enormous change in the ground conditions, it seems perfectly sensible that we should rethink the basic instrument of electronic communication.
As the most concrete and pervasive manifestation of cyberspace, the mobile telephone establishes new cultural patterns of behavior. [...]