Jul13
Isn’t this silly. Think about it: the evolution of telephones is just comical. Throughout the course of my life, we have moved from landlines to car phones, car phones to cell phones, cell phones to better cell phones, and, finally, from better cell phones to the best cell phones — these, of course, are touch screen and can do virtually everything except your laundry. I recently had one of these over-priced gagets stolen, reminding me of our nation’s dependance on cellular devices. I felt naked; I felt helpless. I felt just like I did for the first 17 years of my life — something that I must have blocked out in all this haze of electronics. When I drove home that night, I remember thinking: What will I do if my car breaks down? What I should have thought is: Man, I finally get a break and some much needed detachment from society. No phone calls, no communication. Nothing but me and Radio 104.5 (until the commercials — which seem to be more frequent lately.. grr). My sister, Sarah, sent 14,659 text messages last month. Now, ten years ago most people wouldn’t know what the hell a text message is, but now it’s an acceptable norm in communication. 14,659 — think about it: Assuming there is 30 days in a given month, and that Sarah is texting at her current rate, she is averaging 488.63 text messages a day. A day. That is just unhealthy. To send that many text messages a day requires a significant amount of time. In essence, you are practically attached to your phone at all times — much like a mother tending to her newborn child. We have bluetooth technology that enables you to talk without holding a phone to your ear. Soon enough, you’ll be able to speak into your bluetooth headset and it will copy your words into a text message to be sent to whomever. If that’s the case, Sarah’s text obsession will become unruly; furthermore, she will be averaging 20-30,000 texts each month, allotting so much of her time for texting that it will feel like a part-time job. I’m just as guilty as the next guy when it comes to phones. Christ, we’re all obsessed. Try to go 24hrs without your cellular device — I bet you can’t do it. It really is a struggle to fully understand how man functioned without them. In many ways, cell phones have replaced dogs as a man’s best friend. Think about it: you can play with them, they talk on command, you have to feed them (charging their batteries); you don’t have to take a cell phone for a walk, yet you walk with them anyway. We’re pot-committed here. The world has put down books and picked up an I-Phone. Why? Well they’re flashy and cooler. We no longer play in the park, we play on our phones. What a sad, unfortunate life we live.

Isn’t this silly. Think about it: the evolution of telephones is just comical. Throughout the course of my life, we have moved from landlines to car phones, car phones to cell phones, cell phones to better cell phones, and, finally, from better cell phones to the best cell phones — these, of course, are touch screen and can do virtually everything except your laundry.

I recently had one of these over-priced gagets stolen, reminding me of our nation’s dependance on cellular devices. I felt naked; I felt helpless. I felt just like I did for the first 17 years of my life — something that I must have blocked out in all this haze of electronics. When I drove home that night, I remember thinking: What will I do if my car breaks down? What I should have thought is: Man, I finally get a break and some much needed detachment from society. No phone calls, no communication. Nothing but me and Radio 104.5 (until the commercials — which seem to be more frequent lately.. grr).

My sister, Sarah, sent 14,659 text messages last month. Now, ten years ago most people wouldn’t know what the hell a text message is, but now it’s an acceptable norm in communication. 14,659 — think about it: Assuming there is 30 days in a given month, and that Sarah is texting at her current rate, she is averaging 488.63 text messages a day. A day. That is just unhealthy. To send that many text messages a day requires a significant amount of time. In essence, you are practically attached to your phone at all times — much like a mother tending to her newborn child.

We have bluetooth technology that enables you to talk without holding a phone to your ear. Soon enough, you’ll be able to speak into your bluetooth headset and it will copy your words into a text message to be sent to whomever. If that’s the case, Sarah’s text obsession will become unruly; furthermore, she will be averaging 20-30,000 texts each month, allotting so much of her time for texting that it will feel like a part-time job.

I’m just as guilty as the next guy when it comes to phones. Christ, we’re all obsessed. Try to go 24hrs without your cellular device — I bet you can’t do it. It really is a struggle to fully understand how man functioned without them.

In many ways, cell phones have replaced dogs as a man’s best friend. Think about it: you can play with them, they talk on command, you have to feed them (charging their batteries); you don’t have to take a cell phone for a walk, yet you walk with them anyway.

We’re pot-committed here. The world has put down books and picked up an I-Phone. Why? Well they’re flashy and cooler. We no longer play in the park, we play on our phones. What a sad, unfortunate life we live.