Is the day coming when we will always be online?
Walter Mossberg thinks so. He recently gave a talk in Princeton, NJ where I live (except in the winter). I’m away so I missed the talk but there’s a report of it in the local newspaper:
Prominent technology journalist Walt Mossberg came to Princeton University on Wednesday bearing a message of the future: The Internet, for all its current pervasiveness, has only just begun its expansion into every corner of American life.
â€People are going to live a life where you’re always going to be online,†said Mr. Mossberg.
Mossberg may very well be right in his picture of the future but I am not personally enamored of the idea of always being online. I already wonder at the willingness of so many people to be slaves to their cell phone. Everywhere I go, I see people constantly having to answer their phone or feeling obliged to call people up, no matter where they are. I seem to be in the minority but I have no interest in being tethered to a phone or the Internet every minute of my life.