Many of you reading this column may not remember a time when there were no cell phones. My life as a traveling salesman for a roofing equipment distributor was made nice being in that blessed time. Of course, we did not know it at the time, but — sigh — those really were the good old days.
When cell phones began their ascension into the ranks of the indispensable business tools, they were less than perfect. Like most new technologies, they were clunky, expensive, and didn’t always perform as desired. This was when those five words became an iconic phrase: “Can you hear me now?”