"Just a decade or two ago, those same people would have let a landline on their desk go unanswered during a meeting, so different were the expectations for reac

"Just a decade or two ago, those same people would have let a landline on their desk go unanswered during a meeting, so different were the expectations for reachability." It's true that with cellphones you can reach someone even if they aren't at their home or desk, but aren't people switching their phones to silent a lot more? Maybe this depends on where you are, but I can't immediately get through to a lot of people I know the first time I call their cellphone. Text messages also make it a lot easier to communicate asynchronously, if you'll pardon the metaphor. I have actually been wondering if the expectation of availability for realtime remote voice communication isn't going to slowly die over a period of decades.