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Article: A nobody in a wireless world
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- Redlands Daily Facts
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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I think I'm becoming a dinosaur.
Not the dangerous sort that rampaged through "Jurassic Park," but
a remnant of an earlier, more primitive age the pre-cell-phone era.
I'm almost the only person I know whose purse, backpack or pocket
doesn't spew forth the first few notes of a Mozart symphony or a
catchy little catch phrase from a pop tune at least a dozen times a
day.
I don't own a cell phone. I've never had one, never even used
someone else's.
It's not that I'm against technology. I'm not a Luddite, angrily
punching out computer screens with my yellow No. 2 pencil or crushing
cell phones under the wheels of my Conestoga wagon.
It's been years since I've lived without the convenience of a ...