Honestly, this dude sounds like a nut-job. Owning a cell-phone won't make you a slave to technology anymore than owning a computer will. A cell phone is a tool,

Honestly, this dude sounds like a nut-job. Owning a cell-phone won't make you a slave to technology anymore than owning a computer will. A cell phone is a tool, and a tool is is only how you use it. And besides, none of that has anything to do with media doublespeak, distracted youngsters, or the author's own idealization of the hippies.