Thursday, September 07, 2006


I just bought the Nokia 6822 Phone that has a camera and can tie into your Blackberry account. This is the first cell phone after probably 10 or so that I have had in the past 25 years that I feel compelled to link with my computer to synchronize PIM data. I know that 25 years sounds pretentious, but I am an older guy who remembers what an IBM Selectric was. My first cell phone was a natural for voyeurs. You could hear everybody. I actually heard two rabbis discussing an approach to an funeral, and also shamelessly lurked on some pretty gruesome personal conversations. Luckely, PCS has given privacy a boost, and also has taken away the sick urge to listen in on others woes. At any rate my new phone will not be my last. I'm sure that even at my advanced age, I will see the day when our mobile devices are comprehensive data and communications machines that will take the place of telephones, TVs, PC's and cameras. It will be interesting when technology truly levels the playing fields between the haves and have nots.

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