The invention of telephony bridged distances the way wormholes (supposedly) warp spacetime. Anyone could call anyone else over a sophisticated network of wires in a matter of seconds, wherever they are on the planet. This is especially true with mobile telephony technologies.
So why haven't I got a cell phone yet? Well, whichever kind of telephony you're talking about (traditional vs. mobile vs. internet), you always have one person calling another. That's what phones are for, so you can call someone or so someone can call you. So it sort of defeats the purpose of having a phone if you have nobody to call or nobody wants to call you.
That is, I think, why I haven't got a cell phone yet.
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