lost.....

Monday I lost my cell phone. I spent all day Tuesday without it. That was the first time since 1998 I've been without one. It's kind of weird going a day without it. I remember a time when I didn't have one, they are such a convienience. It's easy to take for granted how useful they are in day to day life. In fact, I'd much rather do without my land line phone than not have a cell phone.

I can live without internet access, cable tv, even a car. Hell, I was homeless for awhile last year, but it hit me like a sack of bricks to be without my cell phone for one day. I read a book called technopoly for class one year. It states that technology eventually defines culture and we become used to those things. After a long period of having a technology, we take it for granted.

The wheel, fire, and literacy were all new technology at one point in time. We all take those for granted.