Instead, we go to parties to all sit in our respective corners and stare at our phones, waiting for something better to text us.
From having attended a few of the Stop & Shop gatherings, Aaron knew some of the car crowd, and, while phoning around for something to do, he learned about the birthday party at the Martins'.
"The film director Peter Jackson is a friend of mine and a collector – it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the end of the phone bidding for something," Anderson said.
Last week, we reported that Trump had somewhat begrudgingly trading his beloved Android phone in for something more secure.
You turn on your phone, search for something in Google using voice search on your home screen.
Squirming, I checked my phone just for something else to look at.
Others had their own ideas for how to disrupt their industry: Drivers passed around a book of cell phone numbers for something called "The Uber Driver Network," which organizers described vaguely like a text-based attempt to cut out Uber as the middle man.
Everyone, from tech executives to the heads of wireless carriers, touched on the lucrative business opportunity that awaits the introduction of services that let you wave your phone to pay for something.
As he saw it, the problem was the reluctance of cops and spies to test what access they already had by picking up the phone and asking for something.
