The Guardian: Generation text

The Guardian is running an interesting article on the social and cultural impact of mobile phones. A notable example is that we no longer decide on strict meeting details, but rather tend to text each other at the approximate hour in order to define an exact time and place. Amusingly, we also instinctively listen with extra attention to conversations we can only hear one side of. This results in frustration from being deaf to half of the conversation and increases the tension provoked by people making or receiving calls around us. The complete esearch paper the article refers to can be found at the 160 characters (PDF) website.