1. Reliance and Dependency on
Cellular Telephones
Erika Ricard
JUS494: Science, Technology & Inequality
November 20, 2008

2. • The first cell phone: 1973
• Availability: extremely low
• Trial customers in Chicago
• and Tokyo only by 1979.
• 1987: Over 1,000,000 cell
• phone users in the United
• States alone.

3. • Growth In Mobile Cell Phone Usage

4. Always Wanting the Best
• Features:
• Surfing the web
• Checking the stock market
• Playing games
• Videos/pictures
• Calendar

5. Recent Addition
• The Internet
• Creates a huge
• opportunity to have
• quick accessible information.
• MP3
• Music playing availabilities
• GPS
• Location of anything

6. Addiction
• Becoming “a part” of someone