I remember when Larry and I first got cellphones. The year was 1995, I was pregnant with my firstborn, and I was commuting to work 72 miles from Oceanside to Orange county every single day. The cellphone came in a large box, bigger than my purse, and the phone itself was the size of a half-gallon of milk.
Little by little the cellphones got smaller and smaller. Not only did they suddenly become smaller but we all wanted smaller, thinner, more compact, a phone that can slide into a pocket. So tiny, in fact, that sometimes it was hard to even see people using their phones and they only appeared to be ready for the crazy farm as they crossed streets talking loudly seemingly to themselves.
Enter today. Ipads. Tablets. Even my Droid cellphone is almost as big as my original phone back in the mid-90s.
What the hell?
Whenever I see commercials for these tablets and Ipads I have to laugh. Is it only me who feels we have somehow gone backwards? Not backwards, technologically speaking, but in reference to size only. I find it comical that a few years ago we only walked around with the smallest and thinnest cellphones and yet today we are happy to tote around these ginormous tablets and Ipads. Touch screens on steroids. Sitting in an airport with nothing inconspicuous anymore. We are now checking the fastest routes or the best restaurants on these huge tablet things.
Is this simply the ebb and flow of our society? Our cars were once these large hunks of metal to mini-Coopers to Hummers and now back to small again. Or, houses that once consisted of only one rooms, to McMansions, and now back to smaller again. Pretty soon we are going to be lugging around rotary-size phones and mapquesting on tablets the size of vinyl records as we cram into tiny cars plugged into the wall overnight.
Ah, life....
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