"Technology surrounds and supports us in our everyday lives; it sometimes even assists with routine tasks on the job or at home. A new crop of ever-more sophisticated devices is becoming increasingly more attuned to and aware of our entertainment or communications needs where some features overlap across separate devices. One example is the cell phone that doubles as a PDA preloaded with games, or how about a PDA that can be converted into a softphone when using the right software?
"Some of these devices are islands unto themselves--not that they were intended to be isolated from others--it just happens to be their nature..."
