Then there are the dreaded side-effects of mobile use. Despite the fact that mobile radiation has not been proved damaging, a government enquiry into the issue, led by Sir William Stewart, recommended that children's use of mobiles should be restricted. Now Nimbyish agitation against mobile phone masts is on the increase. As more and more IT is built directly into dashboards, so the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration itches to regulate it. Their English skills are in steep decline, a victim of 'texting'.
Kids rob each other for mobile phones.
Bills are enormous, parents at their wits' end, schools and cinemas have had enough. Many more genuine problems exist around mobile human resources than the critics of mobiles ever acknowledge. Team members who use IT on the move or from home face special issues. Yet these are social problems, not mobile ones. Put to the wrong uses, mobiles can atomise and dehumanise.