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When I read about step changes, I think about cell phones. I was studying in Israel during 1997-98, in a school where almost all the students were twentysometh
by sethg 17y ago
When I read about step changes, I think about cell phones.
I was studying in Israel during 1997-98, in a school where almost all the students were twentysomethings from the US or UK. At one point, one of the students came in with a cellphone on his belt, and he got teased for it, because carrying around a cell phone was a stereotypically Israeli thing to do. He'd gone native, so to speak.
Flash forward five years, maybe less, and of course I and my wife have cellphones. Who, in the US, doesn't?
- DannoHung 17y agoCarrying it on your belt was the problem. And I still tease people that carry crackberries on their belts.
- StrawberryFrog 17y agoThe solution is that they got small enough to pocket.
- sethg 17y agoUh-oh.
- shrughes 17y agoWhat happens nowadays is that people will at first carry them in their pockets, but as they get further from their youth, their thighs get flabbier. Soon enough they find it more comfortable to have the phone on the belt, because their pockets are smaller.