One of the ironies of modern life is that everyone is glued to their phones, but nobody uses them as phones anymore. Phone calls are becoming relics of a bygone era, the “phone” part of a smartphone turning vestigial as communication ＿＿（11）＿＿ , willingly or not, into data-oriented formats like text messaging and chat apps. The distaste for telephony is especially acute among Millennials, ＿＿（12）＿＿ have come of age in a world of AIM and texting, then gchat and iMessage, but it’s hardly limited to young people. When asked, people with a distaste for phone calls argue that they are ＿＿（13）＿＿ , especially given alternative methods of contact that don’t make unbidden demands for someone’s undivided attention. In response, some have been diagnosed with a kind of telephoniphobia among this set. When even initiating phone calls is a problem—and even ＿＿（14）＿＿ ones, like phoning the local Thai place to order takeout—then anxiety rather than habit may be to blame. But when it ＿＿（15）＿＿ taking phone calls, nobody seems to have admitted that using the telephone today is a different material experience than it was 20 or 30 years ago. The telephone used to be truly great, partly because of the situation of its use, and partly because of the nature of the apparatus we used to refer to as the “telephone”—especially the handset.