If the telephone had not been invented what would have happened?

Answer 1

The key distinguishing characteristic of the telephone was its ability to transmit the voice directly from speaker to listener. If the telephone had never been invented and we were left with communications like the telegraph, where the communication had to be encoded into dots and dashes, it is possible that some form of automated coding (keyboard entry, telex) would have been developed to a greater extent than it was, and something resembling digital communications might have come along sooner than it did, but later than the telephone actually did. On the other hand, the telephone was such an integral part of the advances that were being made in the late 19th century, that it seems likely that it would have been developed by someone else if Bell and his rivals had not done so. A word truly without the telephone would have to be a world in which electricity was not developed at all.

Answer 2

Then people would have to find some other way of being pretentious d-bags.

There were other cell phones and had been for many years.

Is it convenient to have a cell phone? Sure.

Is the iPhone a good cell phone? I suppose it's okay.

Is the iPhone so much of an improvement over previous cell phones that it literally transformed society? No. No, it is not. It's just a cell phone, one that's probably overpriced at that. The world would be substantially the same as it is today without iPhones.

Answer 3

we would live happily ever after! jk

We would do what we did before cell phones and that was use a pay phone or find a land line to use.

Answer 4

no one will be where they are right now