Technology

Phone numbers are dead, they just don’t know it yet

Is it conceivable that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to face extinction?

Federal News Network Staff

August 30, 2010 5:10 pm

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Is it conceivable that one of our greatest inventions, the phone number, is about to face extinction? Just ask Mark Zuckerberg. Earlier this year, when asked if Facebook would be around in 100 years, as long as Ma Bell has been around, Zuckerberg responded, “I don’t know. But I don’t know how long telephones will be around for.” TechCrunch asks: will they be around for ten more years? I’ll go even further. It may not even take 5 years for the phone service, as we know it, to meet its demise.

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