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A Portal in the Hand

  • 04/14/05
Ask a young person for the time these days, and chances are she’ll pull out her cell phone rather than glance at a watch ... It also highlights an amazing new prerogative that today’s college generation calmly takes for granted: access to up-to-the-second information without interrupting a walk across campus. The only questions may be: Should a student’s cell phone (BlackBerry, PDA, or other pocketable device) also display the grade from a physics test or a change in the location of today's class?
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