What an odd read. An argument was made that one piece of telephonic machinery is superior (in terms of human connection) to another. I'm sure someone published a similar article long ago saying that face to face chats are superior in many ways to those new fangled telephones. It will ruin the children! I do appreciate the design and technological differences in between cell phones and landlines that the author outlined, but I really don't buy his argument that humanity is worse off for the new predominance in cell phones. I still observe plenty of my peers still talking on the phone to family and friends, and they seem to have no more issues with call quality than someone with a landline. Text messaging and other apps that the author mentions are just other means of communication. The author comes off as well meaning but out of touch in this article.