(October 14, 2016 at 9:21 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: If I were flying any time soon, I wouldn't put much trust in a ban on carrying the phones on planes. A number of people are still using the phones and people go crazy - like apeshit - if they think they're going to be separated from their phones.
"It won't happen to me."
I heard on the news today that 3 US airlines are putting fire suppression bags on their planes in case a phone starts a fire. I think all airlines should do that.
Bold is mine.
Indeed. I am so happy that I can actually leave my telephone for hours on end, even a day without touching it. If you think about it, what you are describing is clearly a sympton of a technological drug that people need. We can go on about the addiction to hashish, cocaine, heroin, Cigarettes or alcohol, or even gambling, but the numbers are relatively small compared to those who are addicted to their telephones. For example, I only need to look at my watch ever so often, but someone with a telephone needs to look at it every 2 minutes to remind themselves of the time. As far as social communication is concerned (and I am not saying all mothers or fathers), but a large majority of parents now are using their telephone more than they are interacting with their baby, which could possibly be construed as neglect, when a mothers/fathers voice is important. Oh well, we will have to see in the next 20 or so years as to how the next generation of babies will have grown up.
