Cellular Connection

April 25, 2015 Jodi Sharp

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
-Steven Spielberg

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.

-Aimee Mullins

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
-Margaret Heffernan

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.
-Burt Rutan

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
-Helen Thomas

We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

-Douglas Rushkoff

Photographs from The Atlantic, "A World Transfixed by Screens", by Alan Taylor