Re: POTS still works quite nicely here.
"We didn't invent computers and networking for... communication and information processing?"
I did not say that. What I said was that POTS was invented for humans to interact one-on-one. It still works admirably in that role. The entire so-called "smart-thingie" marketing bullshit has completely disassociated the human aspect of that one-on-one interaction.