I was on the road again this week and I noticed my new past-time: finding a place to plug-in my iPhone. I had to find a place to plug-in in the office I was visiting, in the hotel where I stayed the night, in the airport where I had a layover and in my car on the way home. As we all know, letting you battery run out is really against the rules.
I did noticed in the airport there are an increasing number of places to plug-in. There are plug-ins in the wall (which don’t aways work). There are rooms and towers sponsored by phone companies where you can plug-in. Today, I noticed they now have plug-ins in the rail between the back of the waiting lounge seats. And of course, there are plug-ins by each seat in the Admirals Club (my favorite place to plug-in). The airports have learnd what is most important to travelers today – finding a place to plug-in.
So what is so important about our electronics that we have to have them charged up and ready to use all the time? Is it that we can’t live with out them? For me, my iPhone and laptop are now pretty integrated into what I do everyday Today I used my iPhone to wake me up, check my email, to get a reminder of a meeting, to check the gate for my flight, to read a book, to play a game, to listen to some tunes, to get a message from a friend, to get a notice of a gate change, and to call my wife to tell her my flight was going to be late. So may be I can’t or don’t want to live without it. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. What do you think?
I am glad I could find a place to plug-in today. I wish I had been smart enought to buy stock in the plug-in receptical companies.
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