You have seen this guy. Maybe you are this guy. Driving down the highway at 65 miles per hour, steadying the steering wheel with the backs of his hands so that he can thumb in the answer to that e-mail he just got, his wife screaming at him to stop texting while driving, he weaves just a tad into your lane as his attention is 90 percent on BlackBerry, 8 percent on driving, 2 percent on distractions like his suffering wife. You honk to get him back into his own lane. He doesn’t hear you. He is in the zone. He is whacked out on a BlackBerry high — high on CrackBerry.
“CrackBerry” was the 2006 Webster’s New World College Dictionary “New Word of the Year.” We are addicted to these devices. Yeah, we say, but we are addicted to air and water and food; this is a natural addiction, a good addiction. Our BlackBerrys keep us connected. We are in a service business and these wonderful devices let us render service to our clients in real time, every waking moment. But here is a caution — when we use them at a deposition to check and return and compose e-mails, we may be violating ethical rules.
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