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Overheard: Maybe I don’t want to hear you now



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Telecom, Mobile, Technology

 

“Well, this is one of the great blessings of the modern age – being always available. Or maybe it’s not. I’m not sure.”

Rudy Guilani, speaking to the National Rifle Association

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Dawn treador  |   Nov 16 2007   3:08PM GMT

Being always available is a great tragedy of modern times, where work/life balance is destroyed, turning humans into robots at the beck and call of that invisible, insidious entity known as “expectations.”


 

MargaretRouse  |   Nov 16 2007   3:24PM GMT

I concur. I’m all for setting boundries when it comes to technology 24/7.

Big discussion at our house over whether this was staged or whether he just forgot to turn off his phone. My son thinks he forgot to turn off the phone and that answering his wife’s call was kind of “endearing.” I’m more cynical.


 
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