Having now carried my IPhone around with me for about a week (and getting a grand total of 2 phone calls and three texts), I realized that everyone has it backward.
A cellphone is supposed to free us from being tethered to communication devices.
But it does the opposite.
We are now permanently tethered to our communication devices.
When we had landlines, we were free from them when we weren't near them.
Just saying.
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- Duncan McGeary
- I'm Duncan McGeary, owner and/or operator for the last 39 years of Pegasus Books in Downtown Bend, Oregon. These days I'm writing books as well as selling them. I'm the comic book guy. But even more so, I'm a book book guy. Books of all kinds. Big books and little books, children's and adult, fiction and non-fiction, hardback and paperback and trade paperback and graphic novels. Books with more words than pictures and books with more pictures than words. They are all part of the book world to me, and I love being surrounded by them every day.
4 comments:
Uh-oh. Break out the blackberry cobbler, the wheat pennies and the medicine balls! Dunc is going after H. Bruce Miller's title as Bend's Andy Rooney!
Hah! Look who's talking!
Me? No ways!
"We are now permanently tethered to our communication devices."
Yep.
And the ability to work at any time and in any place has created the expectation that we will be working all the time and every place.
Elliott: Blackberry cobbler is delicious, and tossing a medicine ball is good exercise. I have no opinion about wheat pennies.
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