Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:50 AM 9/21/2006, you wrote: >And let us also not forget the bigger global picture: in many poor >countries, the cellphone has made it possible for even outlying >villages to be connected to the outside world, something that would >never have happened if the telephone company had to lay cable to >connect such places. > >Nathan I stayed with a family in a rural mountain village in Guatemala this trip. Early in the morning, before daylight, the women were in the kitchen slapping out tortillas by firelight and I was taking pictures. A cell phone rang and the youngest woman reached in the pocket of her traditional hand-woven apron and took out the cell phone to answer it. It was someone calling to make an appointment to see the dentist at the clinics that we were having later that day. Unbelievable! Cell phones have changed communication more than anything else ever has. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com