The Twitting World.
In my early travel years, one had to get somewhere in order to place a simple phone call to somewhere else… Never mind a call with an accompanying picture or –Gasp!!- a real time video of the interlocutor. This was Star Trek stuff, not meant for real life, only for Mr. Spock and the likes. And while I am not sure the technical advancements and embellishments accomplished since then are a real life enhancement bonus, they are here to stay and are evolving at a much faster pace than we ourselves can. Today, a cell phone ( and all its peripherals ) is a ubiquitous ( I had to dig in for that last one!! ) artifact which has become more important than the food we eat. In fact, it tells us which food we should and should not eat…Everywhere you look and everyone you see is hanging from one of those. We can’t seem to contemplate the consequences of being without it... Weather, mail, news flashes ( the ones we may want and the ones we want to do without ), junk, the latest gossip, p...