Last night, while watching one of those "1000-whenever minutes" commercials I said to my fiancee, "We will see in five years if they find out that cell phone usage causes cancer." And then, in the news today... guess what.
I went on to rant about the phenomenon that is the cell phone. It is not as if we have replaced our landline phones with satellite-based or tower-based mobile phones, but we have also (as a society) decided that there is some value in talking as much as possible on these cell phones, much much more than we ever talked on landline phones. And the "1000-whenever minutes" commercial is the case-in-point: Why do we need to see if this person can talk for 1000 minutes on his cell phone? What is the deal here? Do you never see people in-person anymore? Are you on a deserted island (with excellent cell phone coverage)? You have never sent one of these so-called emails?
Anybody out there realize that 1000 minutes is almost 17 hours. (Go ahead, check it in Excel.) Oh wait, this just in... T-Mobile has increased their "whenever minutes" to 1500. That is a full 25 hours (per month). Get talking.
