Communication today
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The document is a transcript of a comedic conversation between two people trying to exchange contact information but who keep forgetting important details like email addresses, fax numbers, and phone numbers. They propose an increasingly absurd and convoluted "Plan A" and "Plan B" to exchange this information, involving charging phones, leaving voicemail messages, and sending information to pagers. Finally, one suggests simply meeting in person since their offices are nearby. The conclusion comments that technology allows people to waste time very efficiently in the name of saving time.
Communication today
- 1. COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT LIMITS!! Welcome to the era of ...
- 2. rrring
- 3. Hello Bob? Did you review the contract I sent you?
- 4. -... So its finished? Youll send it to me by e-mail? - My e-mail address? Frankly, I dont remember it !!!
- 5. - Just a minute, let me check. -NICOOOLE, ... WHATS MY E-MAIL ADDRESS?
- 6. - No, no, thats my home e-mail address! - Listen, I cant find it. Let me check and call you back.
- 7. - Oh!... Youre going for lunch... OK, Ill send you the address by fax. Youll have it when you get back. OK?
- 8. OK. So give me your fax number. - What! You dont know it?
- 9. - OK, heres what well do. You e-mail me your fax number and Ill fax you my e-mail address. - No, that wont work. Wait, Im getting mixed up... Let me think...
- 10. So Hum OK Well Yeah
- 11. - Whats your cell-phone number? - Oh, your battery is dead ... Mine too...
- 12. - OK, listen, heres what well do... - You charge your cell-phone battery, Ill call you in a couple of hours and leave you my e-mail address in your voice mail.
- 13. - Then you take my e-mail address in your voice mail and you e-mail me your fax number. -Then I can fax you my e-mail address.
- 14. - Thats plan A. Now for plan B! I send myself an e-mail to see what my e-mail address is and then I record a message for you in my voice mail....
- 15. when you get it, you send me the answer on my pager... so then, I send you a fax with my e-mail address.
- 16. - Complicated? No, its not at all complicated. -We just need a bit of coordination... and luck...
- 17. -Theres also a third possibility thats much simpler: plan C... You send me the contract directly by express messenger. -Yeah!... Its the best plan strategically speaking...
- 18. - But actually, I have a small question... what was I supposed to send you by e-mail? My e-mail address, my fax number, my cell number, pager, telephone?
- 19. - Oh! You dont remember either. - It would probably be a good idea to have periodic bilateral coordination meetings concerning protocols for internal communications.
- 20. - But anyway, since your office is at the other end of the corridor, Ill come by to pick it up in 2 minutes... OK? Bye!
- 21. And the moral: Thanks to technology, we can now waste time with an efficiency until now unimaginable, all in the name of saving time