Word: phoning
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...case in point: I take the subway to and from work, and shortly before I get home, my train emerges from underground, back into the world of sunlight and cell-phone reception. As it does, everybody on the train performs the same gesture in unison. We dip into our bags, briefcases, purses and pockets for whatever mobile digital device we carry. This is the behavior not of enlightened digital consumers but of addicts caught in an epidemic...
...regulate my data intake: I don't carry a BlackBerry, but I do carry a cell phone, and it has made me a rapacious consumer of text messages. I've become dismally fluent in typing on my cell phone's keypad, one-thumbed, while walking. Don't get me wrong; I have a full-blown e-mail problem too. I frequently override the little notifier app that checks my G-mail for me once a minute because an e-mail could have arrived in the intervening 60 seconds...
...three, Internet CEOs have become obsessed with making cell-phone versions of everything we used to get on our desktops. It's the Internet equivalent of Manifest Destiny. You can already get Google and YouTube and CitiBank on your phone. Now that you can Twitter from your phone, there's no longer any reason to look up at the world around...
...It’s way too early [to know] whether or not there will be any building by me on campus,” Gehry, 78, said in a phone interview from his Los Angeles office. “It’s possible...
Avner May ’09, whose parents did not attend Harvard, said in a phone interview that he is not bothered by legacy admissions in most cases. However, he said that if two students had similarly low test scores, he would prefer to see a minority student gain admission rather than a legacy...