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how phones are making things worse

 It would seem there's no downside to the smartphones. In many situations they allow us to communicate almost instantaneously in situations that used to take hours or days. I remember the first time this hit me. A small plane crashed in the foothills, but within range of some cell towers. The crash victims were able to simply make a call and say we've crashed and here's where we are. They didn't have to send out a big search and rescue party trying to figure out where the plane was or looking for the little black box or looking for the emergency beacon or anything else, they just had to send out six or seven people to retrieve them right where they were. This all sounds wonderful. as the saying goes, what could possibly go wrong. But what I've noticed since then is that we become heavily dependent on them. And quite often in dangerous situations where you're away from populated area or even just on some remote highways or small towns where you can't get a signal. Suddenly you're cut off. You're back in 1980, completely dependent on God and your will to survive. Rather than making a simple phone call you have to resort to prayer, wisdom, and a will to survive you never knew you had. All because either your battery is dead or you can't get connected to a cell tower. Now of course the general human approach to this problem is to make the thing super hardened or carry two or three phones and carry a super long antenna of some sort with a power booster. If you go with evolution, humans have survived billions of years without cell phones, now we can't survive a leisurely drive in the country without the thing. But if the thing dies many people aren't even able to look up the phone numbers of people they would normally call. In other words you can't ask someone else to make the call for you because you don't even know the number. And paradoxically telephone numbers have gone to being largely secret. It used to be almost everybody's phone number was published. Now that we all have a smartphone, the opposite is true. Very strange.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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