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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
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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
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