Phone numbers get recycled, too.

Phone books are no longer here for reasons, the internet has not depended on telephony for decades, and it's too vulnerable to scams, spam, spoofing, centralized surveillance, etc. Will legacy telephony die, or persist as an interoperable standard past my life-time?

Phone numbers get recycled, too. Phone books are no longer here for reasons, the internet has not depended on telephony for decades, and it's too vulnerable to scams, spam, spoofing, centralized surveillance, etc. Will legacy telephony die, or persist as an interoperable standard past my life-time?