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The cell phone zone.

Publication: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The cell phone zone.(METAPHORS IN ACTION)

Article Excerpt
I first noticed this in the mall. A person would stop walking, and peer intensely at the screen of their cell phone. They would stop paying attention to anyone or anything around them. They might tap something onto the keys of the cell phone. But they have entered their own reality. I call it going into the Cell Phone Zone.

This can happen with males or females, with older people, or youngsters. They are catapulted into another reality. They might start walking again, but slowly. Often they start going in one direction, more or less how they were going before, but crookedly. First a little to the left, then...

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