Peter VS The Smart Phone

Today I am pulling back the curtain to discuss my dealings with “smarter-than-I-phones”, as I call them.  You may be amused (or sympathize).

When I first bought one, I famously said to the clerk ” I want a tin can on a string, without the string!” I had several bare bones format cellphones for the next number of years, and bought prepaid cards to use for calling. Inconvenient and frustrating at the best of times.

JAIMIE VERNON – SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER

On November 19th I will be 51 years old. I was born three days before the Kennedy assassination so that puts me in a respectable place to look at a half-century of human endeavour and simultaneous failings with some authority.