Mobile phones everywhere in the street, in cars, in the cafe, in the toilet room, on the bus even at home.
Good grief! It can be damn nuisances to see these young people, students, and adults using mobile for communicating out there on your sight.
This morning we went to Morrinsville to avoid the city of Hamilton for quick shopping, paying the bill for the person I am supporting and my mileage claim cheque at the bank. We decided to head out to a cafe for our morning tea, and we sat outside, looking out in the street.
Thinking about the past – how people communicate?
How difficult for many Deaf/Hard of Hearing people because of the barrier?
Here is what the telephone looks like many years ago.
These kinds of phones were permanently installed inside the house or in the phone booth. These phones can not be removed to take away when you are traveling to another city/town. Imagine the photo on the right – a boy was calling Santa during the 1940s. All Deaf people couldn’t hear over these kinds of phones because of no face to face. It was okay for you, people who can call and visited any of your family or friends. Many Deaf people take a car or bus to visit a friend or family on the other side of the town/city, but only to find their Deaf friends were not home, then to travel to another Deaf friend’s home. It was a waste of petrol, money if they were catching the bus and times.
Who really invented this type of phone?
It was Alexander Graham Bell along with Thomas Watson by 1876. Did you know that Alexander had a deaf mother – Eliza Grace Symonds Bell and his deaf wife – Mabel Hubbard? Did you know that Alexander was a teacher of the Deaf (also he was an engineer/inventor)? His mother and his wife were an audism by using lip-reading and speech therapy. Of course, no sign language!@
Moving forward with much new technology of communicating trends and it made people, including Deaf/Hard of Hearing people’s lives better and easier anyway in the world.
The problem is everyone is carrying with them by walking, driving and having a meal at the same time looking at the social media on the table. It is dangerous to send a text or chat over the mobile while driving the car. Where are the manners?
For us, we put our mobiles in the pocket or in my handbag when we go out shopping or to see the doctor. When my partner drives a car, he would pull over to the side lane/bream of the road and answer the call.
Yes, it made our lives better to communicate with Deaf people, staff, doctors, police, and family. From old phones into fax machines, then mobile by using texts or voice over mobile and internet such as social media, twitters, Facebook, chat, messengers, emails, skype, video conferencing, and many other apps. Sadly not to all Deaf people who can not afford or their ‘funding applicant’ declined for any ‘wonderful’ communicating technology.
Life in Eureka 