A post on TechCrunch proposes that “Technology Is the New Smoking” and goes on to chronicle situations familiar to smokers but now apparently applicable to the hand-holders of mobile technology, such as “ going to the bathroom” to sneak a peek at texts or tweets. I would agree that technology is the new smoking, but when smoking was socially acceptable, when smoking was something everyone did, when smoking had currency as something more than counterculture “cool.”
Confession: I used to smoke and remember once lighting up in a Marin County, California, parking lot and having a man sharing the acre-sized space with me shoot me a glance like he wanted to stick a fork in my throat. I doubt this experience is shared by an iPad junkie openly surfing the web.
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