On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Reid Katan <ka...@his.com> wrote: > Gee. Not unlike this very list, eh? We seem to spend freakish amounts of > time talking all things cell phone.
Agreed. Yet, no one wants to admit that they have a "jones" for their cell phone? To wit, yesterday I was stopped at a traffic light in beautiful, downtown Vienna VA. I was surrounded by other vehicles around 11:30 am as the lunch rush was just beginning. I noticed that every driver in my immediate vicinity was holding a cell phone. So, I started counting, just to take a little inventory of every driver that I could see. I could clearly see a total of eight drivers around my car, and seven of the eight were using their cell phone. Six of the seven were just holding their phone in front of their face, gazing at the screen, with a couple of them obviously scrolling around with their index finger. Only one driver was actually talking to to anyone. As the light changed, and traffic began to move, most of the screen gapers never put their phone away, but continued their slack jawed gaping as they meandered on down Maple Ave. "Houston, I think we have a problem." > Is it that computers are not evolving quite as much, and people don't need > as much help? or are cell phones just the Wave of the Future? Well, other than essentially being a radio receiver/transmitter, cell phones ARE computers. They are called cell phones, yet quite likely are used less for making phone calls than for other purposes. I just read somewhere the other day that most cell phone users text more than they talk. These phones are evolving very rapidly. mostly as weapons of the "phone wars." Heck, quite often on television, particularly in prime time, there is not a single advertising break that does not include at least one cell phone ad. And boy, those ads are mostly just tearing and clawing each other to pieces. It's almost bloody. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
