I won't bore you with all the "how our brains are changing because of cell phones and constant information!!!" observations. I just simply want to say that I re-read all the Harry Potters recently, and it struck me as so sad that had those books been written just five years later, all the wizards would have cell phones. With all their magic they posses, their only mode of communication was owl letters (very primitive or both you and the person you needed to connect with had to be in front of fire to talk. I'm glad J.K. decided to not even include cell phones in her later books, even though every kid had them by then. Seriously, every major moment in that book could have been prevented had they had text messages. How are wonderful stories going to be told anymore? What are going to happen to all the merry mishaps? They are so easily avoidable in this constantly connected world.... it makes me sad.
I also constantly wonder if other people have the ONE thing they've thought of since they were little on the subject of "what if people back then had what we have now." Because I've had the same one since third grade. Mine is... the Nurse or the Friar could have called Romeo and told him "She's just
pretending." That's always what I think of. Which makes no sense. Because they never lived.
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