What would I miss if cell phones didn't exist? They seem like one of the most societally regressive technologies ever invented.

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The funny thing about your Three's Company quip is that you assume that 1.) Jack owns a cellphone, 2.) carries it with him at all times like a binky and 3.) has a Pavlovian response to any attempt to contact him through it. What does that say about the "modern" man? Cell phones are a tool like any other, but now their main purpose is to server as an electronic leash and a pacifier. I refuse the chains, so I stopped carrying one despite the usefulness, and I can amuse myself in more productive ways.

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Personally, not much because I don't care for these mini-computers called phones. My childhood was spent in the dark ages - no internet, no cell phones, no computers. I didn't have email at a job until I went to Lucent in 2000. I miss the old flip phones that didn't have the internet and all the garbage apps loaded onto them...just a freakin' phone. When I tell people that my phone isn't tethered to me like an umbilical cord, I get the strangest looks. Fuck all that ... especially now that 'phones' are the size of small tablets. Get the fuck out.

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Having a device you can talk to that answers almost any question has made people extremely mentally lazy. Why try and figure it out when you can just as Google? Why use your brain?

A lot of people act like this now, and it really shows because they're absolutely hopeless when they're forced to try and figure something out on their own. Cell phones are bad, but Google has made things even worse. With Youtube, you don't even have to read anything to figure out how to do things.

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the bill
the radiation that's been linked to cancer in study after study (today another one on thyroid cancer)
other health issues linked to RF
corporations and governments would have a harder time tracking you
targeted advertising
not having to worry about whether someone is listening or watching
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I turned off mine for the last 2 weeks. Been loving it.

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What do you do with banks or gov agencies or package delivery services that 'require a phone number'? Give them a landline?

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Never have had a cell phone. What have I missed?

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You would miss niggers not being able to drive to places they shouldn't been in.

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I'd miss the mapping device. I could get along w/o it, I grew up w/o one. But it's a lot more convenient than a paper map.

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Yeah, the mapping is pretty incredible. Although I’m not sure I’d know my way around the US so well had someone or something else bossed me around the entire time.

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