The price of progress.
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The Price of Progress Progress, is a word meaning improvement that is often welcomed with open arms. However, how high is the price we pay for a convenient invention that soon becomes extremely dependable without our realization? Let's take a look at mobile phones. Invented some thirty-seven years ago, the mobile phone has rapidly progressed up until today, to be one of the most necessary items in our lives. Furthermore, it's even considered as important as house keys! We may ask ourselves, why? Have you ever left your home without thinking of taking your keys with you? Not really. Now, it's even your mobile phone that you cannot leave behind! Once we get used to having one, we simply cannot do without it because we experience that "unconnected" and "lost" feeling we were originally unaware of. Not surprisingly, the demand for such a phone is incredible. In Malta, for example, two-thirds of...


