Mitja Kostomaj - projects >>LdA w/o yor contacts*

A day in a lifetime without your contacts.

When I went to swap my Nokia phone with my Iphone 5, the machine that swaps contacts, images etc. in the shop did not work. Shop assistant asked me to come back the next day. I could use my computer and synced with Itunbes, but I took a challenge.

I realised that I don't know by heart mobile phone numbers for all of my family and friends. I could only recognise 1 out of 10 mobile numbers that called me that day.

This completely changed my behavioural patterns. I started to answer very informally and politely to my wife, kids and my mum. My mother in law was extremely suspicious, when I responded, without knowing her number.

When someone would call me several times I would realise that this is a familiar number and after 5/8 calls I would know who is calling. However this was harder in the car. Next day I went back to the shop to upload contacts. I mentioned this to the shop assistant who also had similiar experince and was also extremely polite and informal in the same circumstances.

This experience / experiment not just pointed out that we could not survive without our Iphones, but also pointed out on some flaws of modern mobile devices, such as compatibility of contacts between different brands and problem of the attention needed when we recieve calls from unknown numbers.

To be continued...

*Name of the project/experiment is an outcome of the phrase "one day without your contacts" from online English to English SMS online translator transl8it.com/.