Absolutely. Society is interdependence. If you woke up unable to communicate with anyone, without language or gesture or comprehension of facial expression, you'd be crippled. Our phones are how we communicate with anyone more than a few metres away, in a way unthinkable 200 years ago and barely dreamed of 50 years ago. You better believe we feel like we've been set back 50 years without one. And I remember friends 20 years ago referring to PDAs as "external memory" and phones as "mobile brains".
Absolutely. Society is interdependence. If you woke up unable to communicate with anyone, without language or gesture or comprehension of facial expression, you'd be crippled. Our phones are how we communicate with anyone more than a few metres away, in a way unthinkable 200 years ago and barely dreamed of 50 years ago. You better believe we feel like we've been set back 50 years without one. And I remember friends 20 years ago referring to PDAs as "external memory" and phones as "mobile brains".