Dependency

I wrote earlier about how we have become dependent on our machines to get us through school these days and I found it interesting since my mother didn't even use a computer when she went to school. Another example of just how dependent we are on our technology occurred today as well. My sister has an iPhone and she was out of town with me this weekend for our brother's wedding as well and her cell phone completely went out. She lost all of her numbers and her phone just had a brain fart essentially. I have never seen someone so lost and beside themselves as my 34 year old sister was. She did not even know her own husband's cell phone number, now this is pretty sad if you ask me. She looked at me and said that when she was growing up she knew everyones phone number by heart and could rattle it off at the drop of a dime but now she is so less adequate to do so. I blame our dependency on, once again, our machines....