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11/17/2009 3:33 AM

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Communication technology has come so far and so fast in the past 10 years. This becomes evident watching movies made about a decade ago - "You've Got Mail," for instance.

In that 1998 film, stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan carry on a romantic correspondence via e-mail with dial-up connections - novel at the time, but humorously quaint and old-fashioned today. No one imagined anything like Facebook or Twitter at that time. And all of the humans appearing in that film are seen walking about without cell phones pressed to their heads - an odd sight indeed.

Technology is advancing so fast that cell phones become obsolete before their users even have a chance to learn all of their functions. Many of the commercials on television now are for devices with thousands of applications that perform as computers, notebooks, television sets and cameras as well as telephones. The sales pitches are geared for people who wish to be instantly informed and constantly connected to friends, family, news sources and entertainment.

Not all people, however, desire to be so connected. In fact, some of us prefer a certain degree of privacy, and even isolation from the rest of the world. Is there no interest in this market?

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Is there no room in the marketplace, for instance, for a cellular telephone that does nothing except to receive and make telephone calls? Apparently not.

You would think that by now someone would have invented a digital version of the old Polaroid camera - one that would just spit out images on paper that could be pasted in albums, like snapshots, eliminating the need to use computers and printers.

Could the next wave of technology sweep us backward, toward simplicity? That may be too much to hope for. Progress, unfortunately, has forward gears only.

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1 comments

An observation : 11/18/2009
Always - depends on the perspective. So far, regarding the majority of the human race, GREED rules. And greed ends up being expensive - no matter who it is coming from.

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