Instant messaging: behavior.Are cell phones changing your life? New research suggests teens' extensive practice of phone-number punching and text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. is giving them particularly dexterous dex·ter·ous also dex·trous adj. 1. Skillful in the use of the hands. 2. Having mental skill or adroitness. 3. Done with dexterity. , or agile, thumbs. Now, many teens even use the big digit, instead of the index finger, to point or ring doorbells. So apparent is this behavior in Tokyo, Japan, teens there are sometimes called the "thumb generation." Will mobile technology change the thumb's place in your world? Perhaps. "The relationship between technology and the users of technology is mutual," says philosopher Sadie Plant Dr. Sadie Plant (b. 1964) is a British author and philosopher, native of Birmingham, England. She graduated from the University of Manchester with her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1989, then taught at the University of Birmingham's Department of Cultural Studies (formerly the , who conducted the study for cellphone (CELLular telePHONE) The first ubiquitous wireless telephone. Originally analog, all new cellular systems are digital, which has enabled the cellphone to turn into a smartphone that has access to the Internet. maker Motorola. |
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