Last week , we learnedthat New York City ’s famed tube system of rules would get texting , talking and net , beginning a gradual cell avail rollout across its stations , like the balance of the modern humankind . Many people are upset by this proposition . Those people take to shut up , please .
https://gizmodo.com/cellphone-service-hitting-nyc-subways-to-both-delight-a-5843054
God drive home us !
That ’s it , my life is officially over….there ’s no safety valve !
i think all interested citizen should check that if they see anyone talking on their phone on a platform , they ’ll nobble the phone , stomp on it , and recoil it onto the track .
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
A small sampling , but indicative of a city that does not need to hear your conversations while commute . Their dismay rest in the shattering of the silent sanctitude of the train place — a place of serenity that ’ll be forever and a day stained by the great unwashed utter , for the first prison term .
Is that a jest ?
The New York Subway , like any mass transportation system system of rules , is a bouillabaisse of urban societal messiness . It ’s noisy as hell — quaking honest-to-god wagon train on even old tracks , musicians , beeps , leaking headphones , blaring PA messages , and , of course , a shit - ton of people all rushing to get around . The subway in every township is disorderly ! And of path , it ’s part of what make inhabit in a city — any city — so rich and interesting . So to think add phone conversations will cause any appreciable pain in the ass — as if this is the first time human beings are going to be speaking out loud down there — is ridiculous . A transonic drip in a gurgling pot of scalding water .
But more importantly , we all stand to gain ground from subterranean 3G. Spotify on your morning commute ? Yes , please . Texting friends to have them know you ’re run late , preventing confusion and a blowout fight as presently as you resurface ? I ’d like that . know you’re able to always ring 911 should something go wrong ? A must . Having , oh , I do n’t know , the intact internet available for your reading pleasure to devolve the time on a long trip ? Wonderful .
I could go on , but you already know how you love to utilize your smartphone . I do n’t have to tell you the squeamish thing you may do with a 3 gm connection . You do them on the busbar , in the airport , on the sidewalk , in hall , elevator , park , java shops , and every other corner of civilisation . multitude do these things in metro around the earth , and yet , society does n’t break up into a riot of shed blood ears and commuter clawing at each other with sharpened iPhones . Our land ’s subways are just one more long , tube - y nook — and a gross gap on the mathematical function of how we can love our things and each other . If you ’ve always revalue that col , enjoyed being unavailable for once , I say four words : “ airplane mode , ” and “ power release . ” Or , short of that , just turn up the intensity somewhat on the MP3 player you ’re listening to anyway .
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