{"id":76,"date":"2009-04-07T04:35:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T04:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wp\/2009\/04\/voice_mail_-_another_innovatio\/"},"modified":"2009-04-07T04:35:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T04:35:26","slug":"voice_mail_-_another_innovatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2009\/04\/voice_mail_-_another_innovatio.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice Mail – Another Innovation Bites The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gotta admit – sometimes it’s days between times that I check my voice mail. I resent how cumbersome vm is. Way more cumbersome<\/a> than texting or email. <\/p>\n

\n

When it was introduced in the early 1980s, voice mail was hailed as
\na miracle invention — a boon to office productivity and a godsend to
\nbusy households. Hollywood screenwriters incorporated it into
\nplotlines: Distraught heroine comes home, sees blinking red light,
\nlistens as desperate suitor begs for another chance to make it all
\nright. Beep! <\/p>\n

But in an age of instant information
\ngratification, the burden of having to hit the playback button — or
\nworse, dial in to a mailbox and enter a pass code — and sit through
\n“ums” and “ahs” can seem too much to bear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looks like my voicemail tardiness is common:<\/p>\n

Research shows that people take longer to reply to voice messages than
\nother types of communication. Data from uReach Technologies, which
\noperates the voice messaging systems of Verizon<\/a>
\nWireless and other cellphone carriers, shows that over 30 percent of
\nvoice messages linger unheard for three days or longer and that more
\nthan 20 percent of people with messages in their mailboxes “rarely even
\ndial in” to check them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I gotta admit – sometimes it’s days between times that I check my voice mail. I resent how cumbersome vm is. Way more cumbersome than texting or email. When it was introduced in the early 1980s, voice mail was hailed as a miracle invention — a boon to office productivity and a godsend to busy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ePZm-1e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":116,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2009\/06\/the_text_revolution_-_why_text.html","url_meta":{"origin":76,"position":0},"title":"The Text Revolution – Why Text Is More Efficient Than TV","author":"Douglas McLennan","date":"June 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In the TV Age the tube has dominated breaking news. 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