From the movie's very first scene, an extreme closeup of Theodore dictating a love letter on the occasion of a fiftieth anniversary that's not his own (that's his job, as a writer at a company that produces personal letters for hire), it's obvious that Theodore, a cog in a cheerfully ruthless machine of technological simulacra for human connections, is coming in for a bruising.
And more connections are coming: the proposed Interstate 11 will eventually run right through Belmont, providing a direct route from the Phoenix area to Las Vegas, Nevada.
It helps, of course, that the price and size of the connection hardware is coming down, and that it's easier and cheaper than ever to prototype something.
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discussed what polarization is, how it affects people and what potential solutions his Bass Connections team is coming up with.
At the time, Microsoft also announced that a version of the Surface Pro with a built-in LTE connection would be coming later, so it seems likely that this device will get a debut at this October event.
Thanks to a family connection, I have been coming here for each of the past 18 years, and something must be drawing me back.
This connection is video only, so you would need to set up an additional audio connection to hear whatever was coming out of your computer (unless you were happy playing the audio over the computer's speakers).
Email isn't the only tool you want out of the office, but it's the one getting attention now that GPRS makes it less painful to collect messages when you're away from your network connection, and mobile operators are coming up with sensible data tariffs and better roaming agreements.
They're not actually at their computer all the time; in fact, the connection might not even be coming directly from their computer at all.
