lack-of-phone-ness

i just had a random thought (somehow. while studying intelligence lol.) about communication...

so yday after overnight mugging @ angus' place i forgot to bring my phone back with me... and so spent the whole of yday and this morning without a phone. i admit. there's an interesting sense of freedom related to not having a phone... that no one can simply disturb your aloneness. but then again... to enjoy that you need to not be lonely first... methinks i shall try going phoneless/ netless now and then =).

and then i encountered the pain inconvenience of trying to meet up with people and being unable to contact them to ask where they were. meeting up was now restricted to: this time, this place, this room. thinking about that just now, it occured to me that with the advancement of technology... the supposed improved communication has probably worsened communication. we take for granted that we can contact people anytime anywhere... whenever we need it... and then forget to keep in touch.

just simply meeting someone... i vaguely remember last time with only payphones to use... you'd call people, set a time (aha punctuality suffers too), set a place, a date... and all these very specifically. now... the answer to 'where shall we go?' is greeted by 'er... i dunno, ____ road... then i'll call you when we get there and we decide' (aha decisiveness suffers too)

hmm... so as technology advances... we degenerate... tsk