Mobiles bring families together because you can keep control of where they are. It breaks hierarchies giving more power to expert groups. In any case, devices are used to detect mobiles not switched off in classrooms. Mobiles have changed behaviour patterns . You can leave for a meeting and not know where you are going.
People are herd animals, but now much better connected to the herd.
Like a shoal of fish, everyone moves simultaneously. In corporations, decision-makers can be reached immediately. In Finland it has happened more than in other countries and subordinates give advice to their bosses on running their businesses. Email, he adds, has enabled people to get rid of the limitations of time and space because you can handle voice and email when it suits you and not instantaneously. Colleagues no longer have to be on the same corridor or follow the same deadlines as they used to.