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I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.

Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.

I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.