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Joel Garreau: Our Cells, Ourselves
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022202283_pf.html

Planet's Fastest Revolution Speaks to The Human Heart

Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 24, 2008; M01

The home is remote, even by Tibetan standards. Charming carvings
cannot disguise how primitive it is. Not only does it have no
toilet, it doesn't have an outhouse. Or even a designated hole in
the ground. It does, however, boast one very great prize -- a
ringing cellphone.

Why?

"That is exactly the question I kept asking," says Kevin Kelly, one
of the founders of Wired magazine, who is writing a book about "what
technology wants." The house at which he stayed -- which featured a
space under it to shelter the family dzo, a yak-cow hybrid -- was
"probably as large as my own. So they could build shelters. But they
didn't build toilets. Went in the barnyard, like their livestock.
But man, they have better cellphone coverage than we do at home.
Communication, not cleanliness, is next to godliness."

Apparently so. The human race is crossing a line. There is now one
cellphone for every two humans on Earth.