Have You Hugged Your Cell Phone Today?

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be 15 more hours in a day. We seal ourselves up in a box with our computers and PDAs and cell phones and we never come out.
This drastic change is not only affecting people in their private lives either. Commerce is affected much more drastically than the common home. In Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer’s book Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy we learn that on an international level, the “death of distance”(Carincross 19), has profound implications for the globalization of industries and national economies (Davis 136). Rural regions in Europe and North America may lure businesses with their pleasant environment and lower labor costs; however, they are no longer competing only with cities in their own countries, as the competition is no longer being concentrated in large urban areas. Companies may hire information workers in developing countries where labor is far cheaper, not only for data entry and word processing, but for writing computer programs. On the other hand, developing countries now find themselves competing in...