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Ironically, the phone seems to becoming less and less about the way you talk, and more and more about the dexterity of your paws. Many social theorists and cultural anthropologists would point out that the division of work and leisure triggered by the Industrial Revolution, and the subsequent alienation of labour experienced by the worker who no longer sees the fruits of his toils, have all contributed to a modern society in which manual labour is in vicious decline.
Whilst this is doubtless true, the reality seems to indicate that man has instead tried to find ever more intricate – and often ill-advised – ways to keep his hands and body occupied as a way of compensating for the fact that our own physicality is no longer useful to us when it comes to the world of work.
This might go a way to explaining why the most sedentary of workers – those who spend twelve hour days sitting in offices, working with computers, telephones and various other modes of multimedia – are often the individuals who most highly prize gadgets and items which keep their hands busy even whilst the rest of the body is nodding off.
Instead of ploughing fields or constructing the buildings in which we live, we instead must construct databases and spreadsheets: intangible items which we cannot conceive without the help of technology. The activity once dedicated to the land and bodies around us now becomes focused on the scrolling pages of the computer screen; and in turn, the element of the human physiognomy which must scurry the fastest (alongside the brain) is the hands.
No wonder, then, that items such as Blackberry are highly popular and easily obtainable for an individual or business, with packages from Vodafone amongst others. Check out the Vodafone website for further details of their Blackberry – a phone with a particularly effective touch screen. With a well-trained pair of texting and typing fingers, these products are able to maximise both work and leisure, making emails and organisation quicker for the professional, whilst also keeping friends, bookings and social networking at the same fingertips. In this respect, perhaps technology is attempting once more to dissolve the division between work and leisure, between office time and play time, in a cyber parallel to the pre-industrial ages when such divisions did not exist.
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