On today's Blackberry Spasms ...
(https://www.ivyexec.com/professionals/insights/insightscat/8843/555 )

I don't miss my blackberry. I liked having one when it was new. At the end of my career I hated it. Not the box per se, but the unspoken assumption that it would be the center of my attention at all times and I would read everything sent, as soon as it was sent, and then care.

Three days without a Blackberry probably did more to improve interpersonal communication among coworkers than any other recent innovation.

After several months reflection I now believe that no one could have written the Gettysburg Address if 999 out of 1000 executive branch communications were done Blackberry Style.