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Article #8906Re: Cellular Phones (of the Future ?)
From: george.p.cotsonas
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 1990 22:37
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 1990 22:37
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In article <ec2j02At03xC01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) writes: > > Has the thought ever occured to anyone that everybody just doesn't want > to be accessable 24/7. I think of pager as an electronic leash. A recent insert in the NY Times or WSJ (I forget which) on communications technologies and related matters of etiquette spoke about how today it is a luxury, or a status symbol, to be incommunicado. Of course, this was in the context of stories about Hollywood excesses: how some six movie production execs were out cruising in a van for appropriate shoot locations, and how five of the six were in independent conversations on their handheld cellular phones, as a show of vanity and status. Cool, man! :-) -- George P. Cotsonas AT&T BL/CPL att!hocpa!geopi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!att!cbnewsh!geopi From: geopi@cbnewsh.att.com (george.p.cotsonas) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Cellular Phones (of the Future ?) Summary: inaccessibility a luxury (sic) Message-ID: <1990Dec12.223724.6844@cbnewsh.att.com> Date: 12 Dec 90 22:37:24 GMT References: <1791JKOSS00@RICEVM1> <ec2j02At03xC01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 20