I hate that I can’t get into my car without making sure I have my cellphone with me.

I hate that I am so disorganized that even if I know I have my cellphone with me, I can’t find it in my overstuffed purse.

And, I especially hate that powerless feeling when I don’t know where my cellphone is, that I have to stop my life immediately to find it.

Many of us feel the same way because we have become so dependent, over the past 30 years or so, on these devices that started out simply as telephones and can now, literally, connect us to everything in the entire world that we need to know — and a lot of what we don’t.

And, if we have a good connection, it can do it in a matter of seconds.

As a member of a generation that grew up without such luxury, it’s still something of a revelation........

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