alt Hacker NewsWe just need a new phone system where 'phone numbers' are designed to be disposable.
Phone numbers were designed with the idea that they need to be easily memorizable in your head but I don't think that's really needed today.
At any moment I should be able to discard my contact and redistribute it on my own.
The idea that old numbers get recycled is completely ridiculous as well.
We need to get rid of phones straight up. No one should be able to interrupt someone else by randomly ringing them and demanding attention.