C Kingsbury wrote:

Already happened in Europe. They're well ahead of us when it comes to mobile
phones, technologically and culturally. I used to work for a European
company, and the guys from over there would (a) leave their phones on in
meetings and (b) answer them, frequently leaving the room in the middle of a
discussion to carry on a 10-minute conversation. I'm talking 50-year-old VPs
too, and plenty of the calls were not at all mission-critical.

The pagers with keyboards were real popular at BellSouth. Sit down in a meeting
with their executives and look around. At any point in time, half of them would
be punching away at their pagers.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.