part of What Do Cell Phones Mean?
download file Burn Unit: I was using my phone to check my bank balance when I walked by this ATM. That's when it hit me: this poor little bugger with its outrageous fees is useful only to drunks and poor planners. The rest of us don't need cash. My phone told me my balance, I knew I could use my bank card to pay for my lunch, and I put this ATM out of mind. It made me think about doing this task: I "caught all these things in the act" of *being* obsolesced by my cell phone (or cell phones in general). Then I got to thinking about that guy who tagged ads with "I keep getting mugged in my sleep" and I had the idea to put stickers on various technologies and media which I catch in the act of being obsolesced or otherwise contained by the new medium of the cell phone. On some of them I stuck "I think the cell phone is trying to kill me." and on others I put "Please don't let the cell phone eat me." This ATM is pleading to not be devoured. |