Convenience of technology comes at a cost
Friday, November 29, 2013 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
As he rose to his feet from a knuckle-dragging crouch, primitive cave man wrapped his newly evolved opposable thumbs around the handy tools of his time - a club or spear - and instantly his life got easier. Two million years later, we have ascended from the apes to the apps. With a fierce, prehensile hold on the bedrock tool of our time, 21st century man wraps his life around a most modern convenience - the smartphone - and begins his day, thumbs flying.