on 3/12/99 6:51 pm, Chivhanga BM at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Marina Logan Bruce wrote:
>
>>
>>> However did we all manage before mobile phones were
>> invented?
>>
>> In much the same way we scraped by before the motor car
>> became ubiquitous. We just did everything more slowly.
>>
>> Marina Logan Bruce
I don't think that mobile phones have changed the speed at which we do
anything, except perhaps in certain business activities. They might have
made us more accessible (whether we want to be or not?) and have reduced our
dependence on fixed BT equipment but that is about all. Surely mobile phones
are more of a status symbol than a necessity?
---
Roy Killey, MLS ALA Cert Ed
(formerly Academic Liaison Librarian, Design and Communication Systems,
Anglia Polytechnic University; now MPhil/PhD student researching into the
psychology of transport imagery)
28 Howe Lane,
Nafferton,
Driffield,
East Yorkshire,
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01377 254718
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