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I’ve just treated myself to one of the joys of high-tech gadgetry.<\/p>\n

It took me years to purchase a cell phone. I declared my intention to be the last man on Earth to own one of them; I declared victory in that\u00a0pursuit some years ago and bought one.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, my wife and I — at the relentless insistence of one of our sons — upgraded our phones. We now have “smart phones” that enable us to do a lot of things. We navigate with them; we play games on them; we receive instant communication on them; we are able to receive text message and text<\/em> in return.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I use only a tiny fraction of the apps available on this fancy gadget of mine.<\/p>\n

But here’s the thing that knocks me out: We have this device in our Prius called a Bluetooth that pipes these text messages through our radio speaker; we also have one in our big ol’ Dodge pickup.<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, I know. Bluetooth has been around for some time. Just indulge me for a moment.<\/p>\n

My wife and I were driving our Prius. My smart phone chirped at me. I’d gotten a text message from a young man with whom I work. The voice then came through the speaker and said, “Read it or ignore.” I replied “read.” The voice told me what the text message said. The voice then said “reply, ignore or hang up.” I said “reply.” I then offered my young friend a one-word response to the question he had posed in the text message.<\/p>\n

Then I instructed the voice to hang up.<\/p>\n

I did all this while driving our little hybrid vehicle. I never touched my phone. I didn’t fumble-finger my way through the keypad trying to send a text message while driving — not that I’d ever do it anyway, you know?<\/p>\n

Believe me, I try like the dickens to be a 21st-century American. I’m getting there little by little.<\/p>\n

Are you impressed?<\/p>\n

Me, too.<\/p>\n\n

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I’ve just treated myself to one of the joys of high-tech gadgetry. It took me years to purchase a cell phone. I declared my intention to be the last man on Earth to own one of them; I declared victory in that\u00a0pursuit some years ago and bought one. A couple of years ago, my wife … Continue reading High-tech gadgets can truly astound<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[676,898,4289],"class_list":["post-15140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bluetooth","tag-cell-phones","tag-smart-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15142,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15140\/revisions\/15142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}