That is an interesting point!  What it would have been like there with ubiquitous internet access??, total game changer that it is.

I left well before the advent of cell phones, and so don't know what happened.  

I got what I think was one of the first mobile phones on the market when they started to come out, with its own hard shell brief case, then one of those ten-pound Motorola babies with the big antennae, thought I was cool.

I just heard a statistic that we are going from 2 Billion mobile phones to over Five Billion in the next few years.  I am constantly trying to track the causes and effects of digital acceleration, mind-blowing.

M