A life measured in gadgets
June 21, 2010
By Peter van der Merwe
I remember my first cellphone well. It was a Nokia 1611. The size of a paving stone, and only fractionally more functionality. As a stay-at-home dad doing some freelance writing on the side, I would check it frequently, hoping it would ring. Which it didn’t. Not very often, anyway.
That was back in 1995. Ah, those [...]






