Ahh - Technology

This topic could keep me going all day. Do we debate the benefits of technology, about where it is going in the future? Is it a good thing or could we end up in a society tht has no privacy or communication? What happened to old fashion lifestyles?
I guess the point of this blog is more to discuss a paricular item of technology as apposed to the big picture but I guess this could be where this all leads to. The bit of technology I find particually interesting (apart from the electric blanket which is a gift straight from heaven and I believe an essential item in any household) is the phone. Probably because although I get up in arms about technology and whether it is truely essential and the fact that none of my things are modern about 2 minutes after I buy them, I couldnt be without my phone. I am one of those people that can barely work a lot of the functions on my phone but the fact that when I was a child (and I am not that old) a phone that you could carry around with you was something of fiction. Then you would see a cordless phone that you could carry with you around the house was a great advancement. These days we would call it a clunker. I find it fascinating
These days we get mad when our phone wont work in any area within Australia. To not have a camera and web surfing options in your mobile makes your phone "old". Many people have multiple phones. And they have there life programmed into it. They can stand in the supermarket and ask people at home what dip to bring to the party. How can we not find the advancements of the phone one of the most interesting in modern time? Am I alone in this?