Across the Aisle: A&W

-So let me see this phone of yours. What are all these icons.
-Well. Each of them is something different. Like here's my e-mail.
-So you can just e-mail anybody from right here?
-Yup.
-And that's through all these satellites floating around up there?
-Uh, yeah I guess so. And see I can check the scores. It's real time and everything.
-Hmm.
-And here's the Weather Network. Games. A flashlight. You can check your bank account.
-Your bank account? What happens if someone steals your phone?
-Well there's passwords and stuff.
-Can you track em?
-Yeah I think there's GPS or whatever in em.
-So someone's tracking you then?
-Well--
-There's someone somewhere who can type you up in their computer and they know exactly where you are.
-I guess potentially, yeah.
-That just scares the bejeesus outta me. Can you imagine what it's like for an old guy who grew up as a young man on a farm in the fifties? When most people couldn't afford a phone? I mean we were lucky, my parents being a little bit better off than most folks. They only had two kids, see? So we had a bit of money. Most other families used all they had to feed the kids, eh? Eight or ten or fourteen kids sometimes.
-That's crazy.
-Yeah. Yes it is crazy. And now all you kids run around e-mailing your friends while your driving your cars and sending pictures to China or wherever else. Does that got a camera?
-Yup. See?
-These things just blow my mind.
-Yeah they're pretty crazy when you think about it.
-I actually feel like I'm in a different world most days. People don't believe in magic, eh? Well I see it right there. Right there in your pocket...