Cell Phones
The most important invention during my lifetime, well I suppose I should say one of the important inventions. I say it was that of the cell phone, pagers and streaming service. Oh, I guess it was three things.
Well, if you think about it, the cell phone as been around for a while, but back then when I was growing up, having a cell phone was restricted to those big business people, some type of CEO who had a bag carrying a big bulky cell phone or somebody rich who had a car phone. In fact, the car phone was more popular among those rich folks. But for us normal people it was a novelty to have one, and they were expensive.
The normal folks had a pager. I guess younger people may not have experienced having a pager because the technology development of today’s cell phone had made the pager obsolete. Even, if you think about that, pagers have been around for a time before they were phased out. Important people like doctors who were on call had them. It took a while before it was an everyday item for the normal Joe.
Even thinking about it today, its kind of funny, when someone wanted to talk to you, they will call your pager number, and then at the tone enter their number for you to call them back. You could be walking down the street, or driving, but when someone paged you, when you saw the nearest payphone booth, you’d stop and put a dime or a quarter in a phone and called them back, or you’d call them back when you come home, or you used the phone at work.
A tier one pager service gave you a stream of the Dow Jones, and stock exchange quotes, as well as the latest sporting event scores, and horse racing results and news headlines. As you can see you can get all that on today’s cell phone, which can fit in your pocket.
Speaking of streaming, before we used to have to wait until our favorite program came on T.V. The downside was if we had something to do and we had to wait until next week to watch the next episode, and hope that one day, we would be lucky enough to catch the episode that we missed.
Now with streaming we can watch our favorite program at out convenience. We don’t even have to worry about missing an episode because we can catch up on it, even if we didn’t have time to watch the show for weeks.
You know streaming goes beyond watching a T.V show, you can get an abundance of music, and other content. Plus coupled with the cell phone you can stream live footage of something happening on the street in real time or make a video call where you can actually see the person who you’re talking too.
Now most people, even grade school children ha a cell phone in their pocket, it makes waiting for a bus, or train less boring because the cell phone and its streaming features helps idle time move faster.
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True_George 
While I have one (I’m on my second one in about 25 years now), I only switch it on once a day and never carry it (I should really when driving in case I break down or something though). It just sits in the drawer. I’d hate to be available 24 hours a day – in fact, I refuse to be. My friend and walking buddy Richard is exactly the same.
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I know what you mean I also tend not to be a slave to the phone. But when you’re traveling it is a good idea to have it with you in case you need to make a call since it is impossible to find a public phone on the street now.
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I agree with that – I just never remember to take it anywhere really. I should. But so many people are slaves to them – you see them here in very scenic surroundings and they’re just scrolling their phones mindlessly. And getting constantly bleeped at from notifications – that would drive me crazy!
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