PeppeR recently organised a round-table talk with experts about the future of the telecommunication sector. Aesthete Péter György, philosopher Kristóf Nyíri and head of market-analysis main department of Ministry of Informatics and Communications László Tóth approached this question from many interesting points of view.
Below you can find selected crumbs from their conversation. Phones became part of our everyday life. They accompany us everywhere: we are not surprised to hear various ring-tones at home, in the office, in the car, on the streets, even on the bus. However, few of us think about the process of choosing between the two appliances (cellphone or fixed line): it is not an exclusive or, there are different cultural-historical dimensions in the background of it. The fixed line has an inevitable psychological advantage: it is located, the communication has no disconcerting aspect that would require resettling the reality of spatial-coordinates ("hi, I am on the bus"). While the person-connected mobile phone ensures a continuous communication that is favourable for our anthropological nature. We tend to forget that for a certain social layer multiplex cinema, cellphone, theatre are unobtainable, so the only way for them to stay inside social communication is to have fixed line. Internet connection through fixed line can decrease the amount of cultural backlog
