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I remember reading an Issac Asimov story back when I was a young'un.

It described the far off future when everyone would be connected to a massive computer and they would carry around their personal scheduler and data terminal. As I remember he described it as the faint red glow of the display of text and numbers. No graphics just text and numbers and certainly not a phone.

Now I think back on how much his imagination under estimated our modern smart phones. My iPhone is connected to the internet of course and I can watch high def movies, and have a video phone call with people in other countries or down the block. It has more computing power than super computers from the era he was living in.

I lived for most of my life without a cell phone and GPS. I could go without if I had to, but I sure don't want to.
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