Mobile technologies like cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) with both speech and texting capacities, each provide features and opportunities to "control the volume." In other words, one can either be naked in accessibility or limit life's signal to noise ratios. People can control their accessibility, their connectedness, dilating and contracting their zones of privacy and wireless activities according to needs and wants. The matter of determining "want" may be the problem, though. As a wired or wireless culture, we have become accustomed to and learned to "want" a lot as we increasingly confuse and conflate wants with "needs? If only Mick Jagger and the Stones were available to point the way.

More on connectivity as a state of existence next time.

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