Katie\u2019s cell phone has been acting up recently, and we\u2019re not sure whether it\u2019s the battery or the phone itself. We may end up getting her a new phone (or \u201cupgrade\u201d or whatever AT&T wants to call it), or may try getting a new battery. Either way, it won\u2019t cost much.<\/p>\n
The real price is in this gray zone, when she has a phone that only functions some of the time. Even though I\u2019m not the one who has the broken phone, it\u2019s sobering to be thrown back a decade into a time when cell phones weren\u2019t the everyday device they are now.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a little scary, not knowing whether I can actually call her during the work day if something comes up, or knowing that she probably couldn\u2019t call me (or AAA) if she were driving and the car broke down.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re spoiled nowadays. With my iPhone, I get instantaneous access, nearly anywhere in the country, to all the information I would ever need. I can pinpoint my exact location, find a nearby fill-in-the-blank, and read reviews on it from the palm of my hand. I can check my bank accounts, buy stocks, look up an old friend\u2019s contact information on Facebook. It\u2019s really a bit unbelievable if I think back on my cell phone-less childhood.<\/p>\n
Maybe we haven\u2019t been spoiled. More, technologically bettered. It\u2019s not that our parents didn\u2019t have this technology because they were poor or choose not to adapt it; this convenience simply didn\u2019t exist back then.<\/p>\n
Still, it\u2019s a bit much, especially considering I\u2019ve only been alive 26 years. And to see how one malfunctioning cell phone can throw us off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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