Sssssssshhhhhhhhhhh... for now
I suppose I must really care about mobile phones ringing, since this is the third piece I've written about it. Maybe it's just that I really care about auditory pollution. Or that it seems like a problem that affects billions of people and hasn't been given enough thought.
I often want to silence my phone for an hour or so, while in a meeting or class. However, I know that I'll forget to turn the ringer back on afterwards. This is a failure of prospective memory ('remembering to remember'), and it's something I feel I have almost no control over.
Wouldn't it be great if one could set one's phone to be silent for an hour, safe in the knowledge that soon after the meeting ended, you'd be back in business? Isn't this what we always want?