Was life better before mobile phones came along?
By Maggie Holland in Editorial
Posted in Mobile on
Earlier this month I had to visit the US Embassy to apply for a journalist visa so that I can travel to the states to cover various IT conferences. It was the beginning of an interesting experiment for me
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Comment by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe - August 29, 2007 on 2:11 pm
When my mother was ill I often had whole days away from the computer and I was amazed at how much more I got done in real life with physical things, when I wasn’t taking an hour to do ‘just one more thing’ on the screen.
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