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My cell phone died today.
It's happened before, what with occasionally neglecting to recharge it, using too much juice playing games (Blackjack!), etc.... But today I just really needed to call my sister to arrange/finalize carpooling (I guess that's what we get for the various siblings going to UNC, DTCC, and NCSU, and all commuting!). The way it goes is that I got out of my first chem lab way early; so I was, like, cool, I'll buzz her, have her take the Robinson bus an hour earlier instead of waiting around at UNC, pick her up at Duke (!?!), get home early and we can all take a nice, hour longer of a nap. Well, RIGHT, like that's gonna happen. I opened up my phone and, bam!, I got blackscreened. No vida; dead as a doornail. So, I rather disappointedly plopped down in the Fox lounge, cracked open my Mac and started typing--you got it--this blog entry for the next hour.

I think this just goes to show how much technology has changed communication and all our lives through that change; even ten years ago, plans were plans, they couldn't be readily changed, and no one (beside the cellphone engineers, of course) really cared. I believe we can expect even more similar changes to occur as the Internet becomes available whenever and everywhere and as live information is made available to a wider audience.

Posted at 02:49PM Sep 05, 2008 by advargas in General  |  Comments[1]