Wireless technology is rapidly changing the way modern society opperates. In A Remote Control for Your Life, Charles C. Mann discusses the attempted development of ubiquitous computing by NTT DoCoMo. What DoCoMo wants to do is make cell-phones that not only make audio calls, surf the internet and take pictures/videos, but also can be used at "the post office, as a building pass, a corporate ID, any kind of membership card, a credit card," according to executive Takeshi Natsuno, "the phone will replace the wallet in five years." (Mann, 136) Wireless technology is expanding at such an incredible rate that it is quite probable Natsuno is right. Over the coming decades human beings are going to become increasingly wired in to their surroundings, as modern computer technology permeates further into our everyday lives. I do not think that the impact of this on our society should be underestimated. As we come to use computers and cell phones more and more in our lives, we become dependent on them. I went to school without my phone the other day and when I realized on the bus that I did not have it, it really bothered me, and I felt naked. From a guy who four years ago said he would never even own a cell phone, this is a radical change.
It seems that nowadays you always have to be connected. If someone sends me e-mail and I do not check it for a couple days, it is as if I've committed a crime. Same thing happens when my cell goes off and I don't answer it. People around me, or the selfish bastard calling, expect that I will automatically answer the call. But why do I have to? Sometimes I just don't feel like talking on the phone, it's nothing personal, I just do not want to talk. Unfortunately, when the call is from my boss or some other such authority figure, I have to answer it. This can cause work to impose on one's life all the time. Luckily, I work a shit job for $8.50/hr and my boss rarely calls me. One day, however, I will have a good job and I will probably be forced to deal with harassing calls from my superiors wherever it is I am trying to not think about work.

Mann, Charles C. "A Remote Control for Your Life." MIT Technology Review, 2004.