Douglas Rushkoff makes the “duh-discovery”: “It’s not that American kids don’t have cell phones. They do. It’s just that they don’t have the same need to use their phones for activities that are already being satisfied better elsewhere. After a couple of hours of free instant messaging on the computer every day after school, how much of an appetite could they possibly have for sms, photos or none, late into the night?”
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