So Jennifer O'Connell in The Sunday Business Post laments the the death of the 'old fashioned landline phone', how she has fallen out of love with the old fashioned phone call.
She finds it ironic that in an age of constant always on communications, there is no place for the phone.
What desert island has she been living on?
The phone is a tool to communicate, people still talk - on their mobile PHONE - that fact that it is not tethered to a piece of copper wire is irrelevant.
When Bell introduced the phone it didn't have a dialler, and when touch tone was introduced, there was no uproar in society losing its grip on the evolutionary ladder.
Oh and by the way a four year old doesn't know that one can see one's daddy whilst using Skype - she just wants to see her daddy.
The only irony is that she is using an old fashioned print medium to criticise technology.
