365: Red; January 18, Secret Service

It strikes me there are probably thousands of articles written daily about how invasive or ubiquitous smart phones are in humans' lives. It strikes me too a fair number of those articles will have been written on a smart phone or tablet.

And despite many of those articles and much of the opinion in them suggesting western civilisation is over and face-to-face communication is nearly dead thanks to technology, it also strikes me there is a tendency to wonder about and even distrust someone who has no cell phone, smart or not, and who doesn't function well in the digital world, and even to marginalise as a techno-peasant or Luddite, those who resist joining the last wave.

That said, I do think it rude to not speak to those we are with, even if "those" are one's little dog.