But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.
But investigators still don't know what caused cell six to short-circuit in the first place.
All too often, in this age of cell phones, short holidays and all-inclusive resorts, we lose sight of the connections that once made travelling great.
"The failure rate was higher than predicted as part of the certification process and the possibility that a short circuit in a single cell could propagate to adjacent cells and result in smoke and fire must be reconsidered, " said Deborah Hersman, the head of NTSB.
The FAA announcement comes on the same day the National Transportation Safety Board told reporters it had identified the exact battery cell that first short-circuited on a plane in Boston in early January, but still had not determined the root cause of the electrical short.
For short messages there are two-way pagers like Motorola's T900 Talkabout, not to mention the various short-message services built into cell phones.
However, in smaller microinfarcts, the cell death may only travel a short distance.
Hersman said investigators believe the problem originated in cell six, which shows multiple signs of a short circuit -- an unintended path of electricity.
Of course, since cell phones have been in use for a relatively short time, we cannot rule out the possibility that heavy and long-term use may prove to have effects when more time has elapsed.
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And all of us who have cell phones know that really means it lasted well short of a minute because the phone company rounds things up to the nearest minute, just to help us all with our bookkeeping.
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Poloxamer 188 has already been tested in humans with sickle cell anaemia and was found to be safe in the short term - 24 hours of use.
The short massage boosted the production of mitochondria, the energy factory of the cell, among other effects.
In fact, there is an SMS (Short Messaging Service) service that will automatically send you alerts on your cell phone.
In the short run, carriers have taken steps to manage spectrum more efficiently by splitting cell sites, offloading traffic onto local WiFi connections and upgrading back-haul networks.
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There are only short stretches in a conversation when he's not interrupted by one of his three cell phones.
The short circuit resulted in a thermal runaway -- a chemical chain reaction -- in cell six, which spread to adjacent cells.
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