{"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 &#8211; Another Innovation Bites The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gotta admit &#8211; sometimes it&#8217;s days between times that I check my voice mail. I resent how cumbersome vm is. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/02\/fashion\/02voicemail.html?scp=1&amp;sq=you%27ve%20got%20voice%20mail&amp;st=cse\">Way more cumbersome<\/a> than texting or email. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When it was introduced in the early 1980s, voice mail was hailed as<br \/>\na miracle invention &#8212; a boon to office productivity and a godsend to<br \/>\nbusy households. Hollywood screenwriters incorporated it into<br \/>\nplotlines: Distraught heroine comes home, sees blinking red light,<br \/>\nlistens as desperate suitor begs for another chance to make it all<br \/>\nright. Beep! <\/p>\n<p>But in an age of instant information<br \/>\ngratification, the burden of having to hit the playback button &#8212; or<br \/>\nworse, dial in to a mailbox and enter a pass code &#8212; and sit through<br \/>\n&#8220;ums&#8221; and &#8220;ahs&#8221; can seem too much to bear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like my voicemail tardiness is common:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Research shows that people take longer to reply to voice messages than<br \/>\nother types of communication. Data from uReach Technologies, which<br \/>\noperates the voice messaging systems of <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/verizon_communications_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More information about Verizon Communications\">Verizon<\/a><br \/>\nWireless and other cellphone carriers, shows that over 30 percent of<br \/>\nvoice messages linger unheard for three days or longer and that more<br \/>\nthan 20 percent of people with messages in their mailboxes &#8220;rarely even<br \/>\ndial in&#8221; to check them<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gotta admit &#8211; sometimes it&#8217;s days between times that I check my voice mail. I resent how cumbersome vm is. Way more cumbersome than texting or email. 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