The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says read more
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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window.
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