The pandemic didn’t cause this, but here’s our life: No more quiet, romantic meals in fancy restaurants or lively conversations around the family dinner table. No more hiding from your ex, getting totally away from work, or avoiding that bothersome friend who wants to borrow money. No more visiting the restroom alone. No longer can husbands “forget” the tofu at the market because he left the grocery list home and tried his best to remember what was on it. Or wives waiting at a cafe for a lunch date, wondering why her husband is an hour late. All this is in the past.
Why all these changes? Because in 1917 a Finnish inventor, Eric Tigerstedt, filed for a patent for a “pocket-size folding telephone with a very thin carbon microphone.” And the cell phone was born, changing our lives forever.
