Cellphone embedded in road surface

“Un cellulare incastonato nell’asfalto,” spotted in Italy by Michele Aquila. Bruce Sterling describes it as “Pompeiian, yet utterly abject.”

Source [ibcbulk's photostream via Beyond the Beyond]

1. [Not a Doktor]

   

   we need to pave our roads with the bones of our dead (devices)

2. [ROSSINDETROIT]

   That’s not embedded, it’s rising out of the primordial tar ooze through spontaneous generation.

3. [indiecognition]

   The paving was shallow and pedantic.

4. [Bucket]

   “If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let ’em go, because, man, they’re gone.”
   –Jack Handey

   Except in this case it’s a cell phone and hot tar.

5. [vamidus]

   Wouldn’t it be nice if the device still worked?

6. [strider_mt2k]

   Even the road is rejecting it.

7. [zeta]

   Ahh, the M65. I loved this phone. Had two of them (in black and grey), but unfortunately my temper forces me to destroy things. Nice side-effect: always a new phone…

8. [strider_mt2k]

   Anger management through destruction of consumer goods as a pathway to upgrades.

   You must be a lot of fun at Thanksgiving.

9. [Frank_in_Virginia]

   I’ll assume it is on some ring road.