Hell Phones

I found this article on Wired Magazine, I couldn’t help but to laugh even though most of the things that this guy pointed out are true. He talks bad about cell phones and the negative influences that has in our lives. Here are some:

INTERRUPTABILITY - Phones have always been interrupting machines. Like a screaming baby demanding to be fed, a phone demands your attention as soon as it rings. It requires you to be interruptible. And a hell phone, unlike a house phone, tags along with you wherever you go, nagging.

HEALTH HAZARD - Your hell phone may or may not give you brain cancer, but it certainly increases the quantity of microwaves being pumped through the air. What's more, like any electronic device, it's difficult to recycle.

Then there's all the cultural pollution hell phones are responsible for: annoying ring tones, or those loud conversations you're forced to listen to. These social aggravations affect your health by raising your stress levels; the confrontations they can spark with your fellow citizens can come to blows. Not healthy!

SURVEILLANCE - A hell phone is a device you carry that, when switched on, tells a satellite exactly where you are every few seconds. It's a device with a microphone in it that can transmit all it hears even when you're not consciously making a call. You don't have to be super-paranoid (or bin Laden) to see how this compromises your privacy, and you don't have to read very far in the newspapers to see how little we can trust governments these days not to use, misuse and hoard whatever information they can get on you.

DESIRE - Compare them with plain old cameras, computers, watches or any other once-desirable gadget and there's no competition; it's quite clear that the all-consuming, all-converging hell phone is the star of the store, the only machine that's truly compulsive at this point.

The hell phone is where the most passionate consumer desire resides right now, and where all the design ingenuity is going. It's just a shame that so few people seem to know the designer's name: Satan.

Even though this guy made all these negative remarks about cell phones, I have to admit that I can’t live with out it. In a tough situation it can actually save your life if we think about it. Do we have any cell phones haters here?...