Phone Drift

While watching a video of a monkey thwapping the hell out of a snake on my smart cellular telephone, it struck me just how far we have come since I first tethered myself to a landline phone in the 1970s. Back then, we could initiate prank calls in the wee hours of the night and call a number to be told the exact time.

Good stuff, that.

But look at us now. With our smartphones, we can take and send photographs. We can manipulate documents. We can access almost unlimited information. But even with all those resources at my fingertips, I am watching videos of monkeys smacking around snakes.

—Mitchell Hegman