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The insidious thing about technology is that it can quickly go from novelty to necessity. A poll by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, AOL and the Associated Press examines the degree to which mobile phones have followed this trajectory.

Conducted among adults who own a mobile phone, the poll finds the technology encroaching on people’s time. Forty-one percent said they “often make cell phone calls to fill up my free time while I’m traveling or waiting for someone.”

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