Cell phones, cell phones, cell phones: Americans now outnumbered by their electronic devices

Cell phones, cell phones, cell phones: Americans now outnumbered by their electronic devices

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New statistics show that America now contains more cell phones than it does actual people.

Maybe I’m just feeling nostalgic, but I think there’s something peculiar about the fact that we, as a nation, are outnumbered by our electronic gagets:

Al Gini is a professor of business ethics and chair of the department of management at Loyola University Chicago. He is also the co-founder and associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly,and the author of several books, including My Job, My Self and Seeking the Truth of Things: Confessions of a (catholic) Philosopher.