On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Constance Warner<[email protected]> wrote:
> I also wonder if there's a point--maybe in the mid 30's--when the > realization dawns that you don't have an unlimited number of hours on this > earth; so it becomes very annoying to spend some of those hours messing > around with yet another gadget that, when you finally master it, will let > your boss page you at 3 a.m. or require you to finish a report on the bus > the next morning [to take an example from an actual ad]. Cell phones are clearly, to me at least, a more recent tool in the arsenal of human virtual enslavement products. I refer particularly to those NexTel phones that are handed out by employers to all those folks who work out of and drive around in those white commercial trucks and vans with the ladders on top. > Of course, the smart phone [or blackberry or whatever] also functions as a > highly potent STATUS SYMBOL, which is probably a large part of the message > of the cellphone ads. I go to networking events [when I'm lucky enough to > find them] where people just assume that if you're a person of substance, > you're carrying a handheld device with twice the computing power it took > NASA to land Armstrong on the moon in 1969. Ain't that the truth. And the learning curve for those devices is so huge that by the time one is half way to figuring it out, the new model is released and you gotta get it unless you want folks to be talking about you behind your back. It is nuts. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
