Re: Cell Phones - Blessing or a Curse?
Cell phones can be a useful tool, but they fall into a different category than many....
Emergency (911) contact - useful tool, if you have cell service and battery power. Drinking my coffee this morning, seeing this thread reminded me of an incident that was reported off Vancouver Island. Guy on a jet ski managed to run himself out of fuel well away from land.
His cell phone made the difference, but just barely...... drifting with the currents, his next landfall probably being Japan, he managed to snag one bar on a coastal cell tower as he was floating away.
Useful tool, but some people rely on them way too much..... they can't substitute for food, water, fuel, flares... in the middle of the ocean. Same applies on land - you can freeze to death in our Winters, or dehydrate in a desert, if you are blindly relying on having signal bars on your phone.....
And.... they are the only tool in widespread use that surveils you and actively tries to market all sorts of junk you allegedly want. Well, for now at least..... TVs for one, are catching up on the surveillance front....
Rgds, D.