Cellphones

15 years ago, one did not need a phone. Only the most popular had cellphones. Now, almost everyone has one. The cellphone has gotten to a point where it can be afforded in different ways. One could get a contract service, or a monthly service but no contract (pending on the company), or one could go with pay as you go.

We almost (as a society) don't know how to survive without a phone. There is something comfortable about having a phone on you, while on a public bus, or in a new and strange place where you know no one, and don't know where the nearest phone is located.

Its almost become custom to see people whip out their cellphone and text in class or at work...some people text much more than they talk...heck some people use the internet on their phone religiously (I have used it once or twice, and I don't like it, but then again, my phone is a flip phone).

The phone replaces the need for watches...and when it comes to collecting phone numbers, people take out their phone rather than write them down...

Can humanity survive without a phone? Well most would say, they certainly made it a decade or two ago, so why not now?

Well, its not just because one has been conditioned that way, but its mostly based on how society is. Its like the debit card...almost everything has to have credit card or debit card nowadays, that not having one can almost be more burdensome than actually having one but using it very little.

If you pay close attention, you will see void spots, where the outer shell of a Payphone used to be. Some places, such as airports will still carry them naturally because you can't run on the expectation that everyone is keeping up with the fast pace world of technology...but many places, such as schools are getting rid of their payphones. Why? for starters no one probably carries the money anymore and more importantly, they are losing revenue to the cellphone, in the same way CDs are to Ipods and MP3 players, and the tv is to the internet.

10 years ago, it was really popular to play collect call commercials.



Now you don't see them anymore....

So, yeah society could always make it without the cellphone, but could it make it without it and no payphones in sight????

Even landlines are losing out to the cellphone, more and more people find it a waste of money to have them...the only purpose they serve for some is to be a backup phone.

the problem with technologically advancing in society is that not only are people left behind and sometimes forced to advance with it, but also, we forget how to be before the advancement of something. In otherwords, it seems impossible to go back to living in a way that humanity was able to live...because now we know what it could be, and how easier it is.

technology is both good and evil.