"I'm in the cereal aisle. Did you want spoon size shredded wheat or the big biscuits?" because we seem incapable of making that decision without consultation.
Since we have lost the ability or the capacity to go to the grocery store without maintaining constant contact with at least one other person it seems only right that we should be unable to experience other, possibly more challenging, adventures without maintaining that same level of contact.
Thank God, then, that now when we climb Mt. Everest we will be able to make that call.
"Yeah. I'm here on the North Face. Where you at?" we can now ask.
"Yeah. I don't know. It's real windy here. Do you think I should ask a Sherpa to zip my jacket?" we can now consult.
This just in via the LA News Monitor: " ... no one would have imagined in their wildest of dreams even a few weeks back that the 3G mobile communications could be facilitated some place as isolated at the Mount Everest. That is precisely what has been achieved by Ncell. Ncell leads the scene in Nepal as far as mobile communications and internet facilities are concerned.
The company has set up a base station for 3G communications at the Mount Everest at 17,000 feet above the sea level. Aigars Benders who represents the company confirmed the same and said that the base was set up close to the village of Gorakshep."
Of course climbing Mt. Everest has just become a much more dangerous activity because most of the climbers will either be talking or txting. Soon, I suppose, the folks who govern such activities will have to ban the use of cell phones on Mt. Everest at least while actively climbing.
And then what will those folk do for advice and adventure.
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