"I call you on the telephone / but you're never home." "So?"
Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are calling a person.
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I occasionally wonder how I will explain Sheena Easton's 1983 song to Seth, someday: "I call you on the telephone / but you're never home."
Seth will probably ask, "Why does she want him to be home when she calls him?"
Already, it's hard to recall the time when phones were furniture, tethered to the wall by their cables, resting on specially reserved spots on desks and side-tables. Phones are now glued to ears.
I disagree with Martin Cooper, though. Phones do *not* need to get simpler - in general. They need to be what they're becoming: multifaceted communications devices that connect you via voice and data and video, over every network.
