I just downloaded Google Voice and I love it. Now I can make phone calls from my laptop, for FREE, anywhere in the US and Canada, 24/7. If I were the CEO of a landline company I would be shakin’ in my loafers.

(Landline. Isn’t it weird that we even started calling them that?)

I’m happy about Google Voice because I really hate my cellphone. It always reverts to stupid, unplanned activity, like chiming when I have an email, or changing the ringtone without any input from me. No matter what brand I get, they always start crapping out after about a year. Also, I’m afraid of getting brain cancer.

But this is the biggest thing: on a cellphone, only one person can talk at a time. Have you ever had this conversation?

“What?”

“Go ahead.”

“No, you talk.”

“No, really, I was done.”

“Okay, I was just saying…”

I’ve complained to my 30-something kids about the above problem, but they don’t understand, because all they know is cellphones, which for all intents and purposes are walkie-talkies. My kids settle for inferior quality and don’t even realize it.

More about Google Voice, and the future of telephony here. Hint: you may soon be speaking through your television.