Technology moves us forwards, and there are rarely ways that technology can seem like a step back. I’m not sold on replacing the knobs in my car with a touchscreen, for instance, but I could be wrong. I am sure that our current voicemail, even Apple’s visual voicemail, is a step backwards from the wondrous days of the answering machine. Thankfully, Live Voicemail coming in iOS 17 will introduce a new generation to the glory of The Machine.
I say The Machine because that is what we called it. When you get home, you check The Machine. It was our “You’ve got mail” before AOL or email. We actually GOT mail in our mailbox from real humans we enjoy, but we never rushed to the mailbox the way we rushed to check “The Machine.”
