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"we assigned everyone 9 digit phone numbers, but that ran out after 50 years of population growth led to over a billion people. Now we assign everyone an 18 digit phone number. Personally, I'm worried we might run out in another 50 years."



We should've dropped phone numbers and just make it like email - dial person-name@verizon

Infinite options at that point.


I mean as long as you can still set your email-number to whatever you want and update it if you want to drop the old one.

I feel like there's also implications for spam, like you want to target X demographic, all you have to do is try numbers with common name combinations from various cultures. Like in Nathan For You when he made a targeted billboard for a psychic that said "Maria Garcia, I had a dream about you" so all the Maria Garcias who saw the sign would become potential customers.




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