Etiquette and the Smartphone

Etiquette and the Smartphone
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Jeffrey A. Tucker
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In the early days, when cellphones were first made available, they were a novelty of the rich. I can remember sitting at a diner and some guy was carrying on a conversation into a phone without wires from his table. He was speaking loudly and laughing and annoying everyone else.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]