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Planning is Passe in a High-tech World: Text Messages Trump Schedules
Philadelphia Inquirer
January 28, 2009
The ubiquity of cell phones and text messaging, especially among young people, has changed the whole idea of the word plans - most significantly, it allows people not to make any.
"One of the consequences of the mobile phone is that you can postpone any decision until the last minute," said James E. Katz, chair of the
Rutgers University communication department, where he directs the Center for Mobile Communications Studies. "Since you have up to that last minute to obtain information for the decision, cell phones can give you
the opportunity to delay it. What do you want for dinner? Hmmm, I'll tell you when I am really hungry."
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