Between the lines: Smart phones: Stupid, or really stupid?

Posted on July 8, 2010 |

• Editorial

By Gregory Dennis

My friend Ana loves her iPhone. Or maybe she hates it.

“I can’t decide if it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” she says, “or the worst.”

Twenty-five years after the general availability of fax machines (remember them?), and 15 years after most of us first heard of the Internet, we live in a society dominated by digital technology. And no digital technology is as common as the cell phone.

Except now they’re not just cell phones, or mobile phones. They’re called “smart phones.”

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