My first cellular (analog) I picked up in '86 or '87. It was what they called a "bag phone", rated in ohms. Sixty bucks per month, with 30 minutes. Anything over the thirty was billed at 2.29 per minute. Still carried a pager .... and NO one, outside of my wife and secretary had the number. Those were the days.
The first time that I noticed cellular use tearing apart the family unit was in '96. I was having a meal at a Red Robin (American Restaurant), in Seoul, Korea .... Korea was far ahead of the US, technology wise. In came a family of three, a father, mother and daughter. They were seated and the daughter's phone rang and she started a conversation. Within three minutes, the mother's phone rang ... same thing. Finally, the father must have gotten lonely, so out comes his phone and he places a call.
I was shocked. Today, anywhere in the world ... even third world nations ... that's a common occurrence, with the exception of them, perhaps, texting and/or web surfing.
