So will the idea of carrying around a mobile device to interact with the world around us seem as arcane as having to stand next to the wall to have a telephone conversation?

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He told The Wall Street Journal in a telephone interview that the blast happened quickly and without warning.

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For the occasional phone call, we found classic red British telephone booths and assembled three of them along one wall.

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No entity is exempt and, in our world, just about everyone can be engaged in some form of fraudulent activity and theft, be it office supplies, time, gasoline, telephone calls, cash, assets, food, liquor, pictures hanging on the wall, bed sheets, dishes, narcotics, credit cards, checks, information, and whatever else is available for the taking or diversion.

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But the act's remit extends only to the public telephone network, which was defined in a recent House of Lords judgment as ending at the wall socket.

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