{"id":12171,"date":"2012-12-09T10:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T15:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=12171"},"modified":"2022-02-27T06:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T11:23:28","slug":"numerical-irrelevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/numerical-irrelevance\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial:  Numerical Irrelevance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fair warning, this article contains opinions and editorial content. You&#8217;re welcome to continue reading or come back in a couple of days. Then I&#8217;ll return to the more traditional mix of geo-oddities and weird locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, let me leave a note to myself in the Year 2050. Hopefully I&#8217;ll still be alive and writing 12MC, preferably both. Although writing from the grave might be interesting too. &#8220;<em>Write about how there was once a time when people used geographically-based numerical strings to communicate over long distances.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The North American Numbering Plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll focus on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalnanpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">North American Numbering Plan<\/a> because I have a passing familiarity with it. Likewise, parallels could certainly be drawn to other numbering plans beyond the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first three digits are known as a &#8220;numbering plan area&#8221; or NPA. Most people know this as the &#8220;Area Code&#8221; so I&#8217;ll use that term throughout the remainder of this article. The next three digits are the NXX, or the exchange . NXX isn&#8217;t actually an acronym, it represents specific numerical characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Area_code_VA.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/53\/Area_code_VA.png\" alt=\"Area code VA. Image by I, Rfc1394, CC BY-SA 3.0; via Wikimedia Commons\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Area Codes in and around the Commonwealth of Virginia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s use my beloved Commonwealth to consider the complexity that evolved over time. Virginia once had a single area code, 703. Population increases along with device accretion, particularly the rise of mobile devices, resulted in ever-increasing territorial divisions. It also necessitated bizarre &#8220;overlay&#8221; area codes. Those arose when it became too difficult to keep slicing the map into ever smaller chunks. People didn&#8217;t want to have to change numbers every few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter. Soon enough it will be completely irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NXX portion of a telephone number, the exchange, still retains a geographic identity although it&#8217;s gone underground. It was once very visible. The Glenn Miller Orchestra popularized a composition by Jerry Gray in 1940 called PEnnsylvania 6-5000, as an example. It was the telephone number of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. You&#8217;ll probably recognize the song even though it was released long before most of us were born. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OUkNOwpXtc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">listen to it on YouTube<\/a> if you like. The hotel continues to exist although the number converted to the much less memorable 736-5000 generations ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Point<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Where am I going with this? Right. Just like nobody really cares or considers that telephone exchanges are physical places &#8212; except perhaps from an historical or nostalgic perspective &#8212; the same will soon be true for area codes. I started noticing this probably about three to five years ago. It&#8217;s hard for me to pin down a date exactly because it&#8217;s been such a gradual movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employers that wish to remain relevant recognize a need to refresh and replenish their workforce. Many of these are newly-graduating students from colleges and universities. My employer, and probably many of yours, recruits actively on university campuses. We gain a steady stream of entry-level professionals each summer who quickly blend into the group. They&#8217;re wonderful. They bring fresh perspectives and influence new approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My organization has a critical mission that has to continue regardless of weather conditions or other external factors. So we&#8217;ve developed multiple ways to communicate, including sharing personal telephone numbers as a contingency. That&#8217;s where I first noticed the trend as it grew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newer employees, all living within the Washington, DC area, had &#8220;home&#8221; phone numbers with unusual area codes. When I&#8217;d ask, since I&#8217;m a curious sort because I&#8217;m a bit of a telecom geek, they&#8217;d invariably tie it back to a mobile phone number they&#8217;d retained since high school or college. For them the area code lost its territorial meaning a long time ago. It became a geographic signpost of a formative point in their life (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Social_Security_number#Historical_structure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">much like a Social Security Number<\/a>) rather than a reflection of a current place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Demise of the Home Phone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>They don&#8217;t have home phones. The logic: Why would anyone want a device tied to a <em>place<\/em> instead of a <em>person<\/em>? That&#8217;s no grand revelation, either. Many of us have given up our home phones. The revelation may be that we&#8217;re getting closer to a tipping point. Enough people have relocated, taking their numbers with them, to begin disassociating area code from geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not true just for mobile phones either. I don&#8217;t have a black plastic box with a handset and a keypad on my desk while I work. We all use Internet Protocol phones that replicate the functions of traditional telephones. Now the computer is the phone. I can work from an office, from home, from a hotel or wherever I choose. Nobody calling me can tell the difference. I plug a headset into a USB port on a device loaded with the necessary software and the network finds me. We even have remote workers who telework from their homes full-time in locations all around the country and they all have &#8220;Northern Virginia&#8221; area codes served by IP phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Telephones are going the way of the dinosaur anyway although that&#8217;s probably a conversation for a different day. Chat, video and collaboration tools are all eating into telephone usage. My work phone rings maybe once or twice a week now and I&#8217;m a bit annoyed when it happens: &#8220;why are they <em>calling<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So area codes are becoming irrelevant as geographic identifiers, and telephones are becoming irrelevant as a primary means of long-distance communication. I imagine a day in the not too distant future where each of us will have a cute unique identifier that bounces off some central registry somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will allow people to communicate with us using whatever method seems most appropriate for that specific conversation (including something as quaint and antiquated as a voice call if that&#8217;s what they want). The integrated chat\/phone\/video function of GMail already operate similarly although I see something more global, less proprietary. It would work much like how domain name servers operate today where it&#8217;s easier to remember <a href=\"https:\/\/twelvemilecircle.com\/\">twelvemilecircle.com<\/a> than a big string of seemingly random numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodbye, area code. Your (user visible) days are numbered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair warning, this article contains opinions and editorial content. You&#8217;re welcome to continue reading or come back in a couple of days. Then I&#8217;ll return to the more traditional mix of geo-oddities and weird locations. First, let me leave a note to myself in the Year 2050. 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