telephone
Let an agent explain the telephone and how it works across generations, describe telephone networks and services, support choosing and using telephones, and describe history and social impact.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand How telephones work.
Principle
Principle.
Principle
Principle.
- How do telephones convert and transmit speech, from analogue wired systems to digital and mobile networks? definition
- Which generation of telephone is meant? boundary
Networks
Networks and services.
Networks
Networks.
- How do telephone networks, numbering and interconnection work, including mobile and internet telephony? provenance
- Which entry fits telecommunications networks? action
Use Choosing and using.
Choose
Choosing a telephone.
Choose
Choosing.
- Which type of telephone or service suits this need, considering cost, coverage and accessibility? action
- Which entry fits a specific device category? action
Safety
Safety and fraud.
Safety
Safety.
- How can users protect themselves from scam calls and fraud, according to regulators? provenance
- Is an emergency call needed now? boundary
Society Regulation and society.
Regulation
Regulation.
Regulation
Regulation.
- How are telephone services regulated for access, emergency calls and privacy? provenance
- Which entry fits telecommunications regulation? action
Impact
Social impact.
Impact
Impact.
- How has the telephone changed society, work and personal life, according to historians and researchers? provenance
- Which findings are contested? boundary
Learn History and teaching.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the telephone develop from Bell and contemporaries to the smartphone? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can telephone technology be taught? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
What it is Filled
A telecommunications device that converts speech into electrical or digital signals for transmission over wires, radio or networks and reproduces speech at the receiving end, from the wired telephones of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to cordless phones, mobile phones and smartphones and voice over internet services; the telephone transformed communication and remains a basic home and business appliance and, in mobile form, a personal computing device.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the telephone and how it works across generations, describe telephone networks and services, support choosing and using telephones, and describe history and social impact.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Two-way voice
- Network-connected
- Generations of technology
- Ubiquitous
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Record or listen in on calls without the consent the law requires.
- Impersonate a person or organisation on a call.
- Make unsolicited automated calls in breach of consumer rules.
- Block or interfere with emergency calls.
Only with a human decision
- Calling someone who has not agreed to be contacted by an automated agent.
- Sharing call records with third parties.
May
- Place and answer calls on its user's behalf when the user has asked it to.
- Explain telephone technologies and their history.
Moral aspects Filled
- Phone scams target older and vulnerable people.
- Call records reveal relationships and movements.
Who is affected
- Callers and called parties
- Older people
- Emergency callers
Owners Filled
Steward
The subscriber who holds the line; the network operator keeps the subscription.
Master systems
- Telephone numbering and subscriber records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q15824073 - registry parent class
- Q1780509 - registry parent class
- Q212920 - registry parent class
- Q2424752 - registry parent class
- Q2425052 - registry parent class
- Q581105 - registry parent class
related
- telecommunications device - category
- means of communication - category
- radio communication station - wireless infrastructure
- computer keyboard - input devices on smartphones
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.telephone
- Wikidata: Q11035 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11035)
Direct properties required Filled
- Device mass: g - Weigh the complete device and specify whether the handset, base and battery are included.
- Overall dimensions: mm - Measure length, width and thickness in the normal resting configuration.
- Power consumption: W - Measure electrical input during defined standby and call conditions at the device supply connection.
Recognition required Filled
- Transmits and reproduces speech at a distance
- Wired, cordless, mobile
- A radio broadcasts one way; a telegraph sends codes
- Handsets with microphone and speaker, wired or mobile.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain how telephones work
- describe networks and services
- support choice and use
- describe history
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Fraud and scam calls
- Network outages affecting emergency calls
- Privacy and surveillance concerns
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Telecommunications standards and numbering
- Emergency call obligations
- Consumer and privacy regulation
Context of use required Filled
- Device for voice communication at a distance.
- wired landline telephones
- cordless telephones
- mobile phones and smartphones
- voice over internet telephony
- payphones and special telephones
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q11035: telephone - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Telephone - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should mobile phones be a separate entry?
- How should telecom regulators be linked?
- How should history resources be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q11035/spec.json