I really feel helpless when I accidentally leave home without my cell phone. I'm not addicted to talking on it (or any other phone) and I don't even know how to text (now when did that become a verb?) but I'm now a part of that society which wants to be able to be in instant contact with others.
It was only a generation ago that answering machines became ubiquitous. Then I got annoyed when anyone I was trying to call didn't have one. Now "everybody" has one (usually included with phone service as "voice mail"). I can't believe there are actually people who don't even have computers so we can be in touch by e-mail. Still, I like using the postal service (i.e. snail mail) to send cards to friends--even if they are not instant communications.
Who would have thought people would give up their land lines in such droves? Soon you won't be able to go to the phone book to look up a number--with the address, which is often the more important piece of info needed.
Driving directions? Gas stations long ago stopped giving them. (Most attendants don't even know where they are--much less where anything else is.) Your GPS or cell phone leads you wherever you want to go. I print out directions from the computer from MapQuest or Google, though it's hard to read them while driving. Better to have that annoying voice telling you where to go.
On a visit to a friend who lives way out in the boonies I was very disappointed I couldn't get a computer connection on my laptop. I thought everywhere was covered these days--at least the ads make you think so. Thank goodness for my cell phone!
Though it's against the law (and is certainly unsafe) I sometimes call friends or family on my cell phone while driving (sorry, Oprah) just because I can. It is absolutely amazing that I can punch buttons on a little device that sends out and receives invisible signals to and from other little devices hundreds--or thousands!-- of miles away in an instant.
Now if only someone would invent a way for me to "go potty" from my car or bed. (No comment about that, folks!)
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