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What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.

~Catherine Bybee

Topics: Actually Before Between Boy Break Cell Cell Phones Choice Come Dare Entertainment Game Girl Growing Growing Up Had Ice Kid Kids Lot Our Own Phones Place Played Same Spent Teenage Time Truth Up

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What did people do prior to cell phones? Read a book? If I'm stuck in a car, and I don't have my phone, I'm like, 'What am I doing?' Car rides used to be one of my favorite things.

~Chris Evans

Topics: Am Book Car Cell Cell Phones Did Doing Favorite Favorite Things Like People Phone Phones Prior Read Rides Stuck Things Used

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My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!

~Chrissie Fit

Topics: Back Came Castro Cell Cell Phones Cuba Everything Grandfather Had He Him Imagine Jersey Kids Left Literally Meet New New Jersey Phones Power Suitcases Then Two Uncle Up Waited Were

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Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Topics: Burma Cell Cell Phones Charge Clear Come Compassionate Computers Could Demon Human Laptops Ordered Out Phones Rather Seemed Something Than

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We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.

~Daniel J. Evans

Topics: Anything Around Big Cell Cell Phones Come Each Early Everybody Five Four Gathering Get Had House Night Party Person Phones Results Then Various Were Would

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As we put autonomous cars on the road, connect Alexas to our lights and our thermostats, put ill-protected Internet-connected video cameras on our houses, and conduct our financial lives over our cell phones, our vulnerabilities expand exponentially.

~David E. Sanger

Topics: Autonomous Cameras Car Cell Cell Phones Conduct Connect Expand Exponentially Financial Houses Lights Lives Our Over Phones Put Road Video Vulnerabilities

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In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

~David Gerrold

Topics: Agricultural Amazing Been Beginning Cell Cell Phones Century Colour End Had Industry Internet Kinds Medical Medical Technology Men Moon Most Orbit People Phones Primitive Technology To The Moon Very Where World 20Th Century

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In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is not realistic to expect TV news to be anything but what it has become: a ceaseless flow of words and images that may or may not be accurate.

~David Horsey

Topics: Accurate Action Anything Become Ceaseless Cell Cell Phones Expect Feeds Flow House Images May Military News Other Phones President Realistic Room Satellite Side Sit Situation Tv Unfold Watch Which White White House Words World

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Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

~Dee Dee Myers

Topics: Access Breaking Cell Cell Phones Corner Every Exponential Globe Growth Internet Means News Now Phones Radio Satellite Television Virtually

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We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Around Attention Best Biases Cell Cell Phones Check Devices Driving Embedded Even Every Every Time Feeling Going Know Message Our Pay Pay Attention Phones Real Real World Text The Real World Time Us While World E-Mail

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