Comments on: Can You Hear Me Now? NO!? Gooood… http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/11/05/can-you-hear-me-now-no-good/ Marketing blog focused on marketing optimization, improving website conversion rates, search engine marketing, web analytics, word of mouth, etc. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:54:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jammer http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/11/05/can-you-hear-me-now-no-good/comment-page-1/#comment-1182488 jammer Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:32:32 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/11/05/can-you-hear-me-now-no-good/#comment-1182488 Michael is right - most people can not imagine being without the convenience of a cell phone to simply phone ahead. However, the unfortunate downside to this technology is that it has led to a disconnected society. While Jerry and the gang spent the entire episode standing in line making Seinefeld observations and humor, today you'd have each of the characters having individual one sided conversations into their cell phones, rather than engaging conversation with each other. No fun in that. Michael is right – most people can not imagine being without the convenience of a cell phone to simply phone ahead. However, the unfortunate downside to this technology is that it has led to a disconnected society. While Jerry and the gang spent the entire episode standing in line making Seinefeld observations and humor, today you’d have each of the characters having individual one sided conversations into their cell phones, rather than engaging conversation with each other. No fun in that.

]]> By: Michael Szapkiw http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/11/05/can-you-hear-me-now-no-good/comment-page-1/#comment-299176 Michael Szapkiw Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:37:15 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/11/05/can-you-hear-me-now-no-good/#comment-299176 Ah, yes... the Seinfeld episode in the Chinese restaurant. Network executives at the time almost didn't even air that episode because they could not imagine an audience watching the characters standing in the restaurant for the entirety of the show. The show was a hit, but we can’t imagine it now either. I watched this episode recently and thought, “All that trouble could have been avoided with a cell phone.” Kids watch it now and ask, “Why didn’t they just use their cell?” Hmmm… Interesting though how we: 1) Quickly embrace convenient technologies, and 2) Quickly rebuke convenient technologies. My wife often uses her cell phone while on the elliptical at the gym and people get violent. But I can exercise next to her and carry on a conversation unscathed. Now what do you suppose we should make of this seemingly double-standard? Perhaps some of us have pent up cellular anger that snarls like Obama when he doesn’t get enough press. But I suppose it’s (what I’ll call) the “Silent Revengers” (like Jeffrey Eisenberg’s friend) that we really need to keep our antennas up for. Ha! Ah, yes… the Seinfeld episode in the Chinese restaurant. Network executives at the time almost didn’t even air that episode because they could not imagine an audience watching the characters standing in the restaurant for the entirety of the show. The show was a hit, but we can’t imagine it now either. I watched this episode recently and thought, “All that trouble could have been avoided with a cell phone.” Kids watch it now and ask, “Why didn’t they just use their cell?”

Hmmm… Interesting though how we:
1) Quickly embrace convenient technologies, and
2) Quickly rebuke convenient technologies.

My wife often uses her cell phone while on the elliptical at the gym and people get violent. But I can exercise next to her and carry on a conversation unscathed. Now what do you suppose we should make of this seemingly double-standard? Perhaps some of us have pent up cellular anger that snarls like Obama when he doesn’t get enough press. But I suppose it’s (what I’ll call) the “Silent Revengers” (like Jeffrey Eisenberg’s friend) that we really need to keep our antennas up for. Ha!

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