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Design is Dangerous: Cell phones

There are useful designs, such as the recycling bins, and there are dangerous designs. Most times, designs aren’t meant to be harmful, since designs are made by humans for humans. A design can be useful and dangerous at the same time, such as: a cell phone.

 The cell phone does not have to be dangerous, but with each additional updates with cell phones, the device gets more and more tech savvy that sometimes people just cannot put down the phone, and that's when the cell phone gets dangerous.  

Danger #1: People text when they drive. It's so dangerous to engage in this activity while driving that it is illegal in California to text and drive. When people are texting, their attention is turned away from the road to the small device. Depending on what is going on around them, they are increasing their chances for a car accident.  It is most likely not the intention of the designers of text messaging to create such a dangerous situation people. In fact, the creation of text messaging was most likely intended to make communication easier between people. Who would have thought that people would text and drive?

Danger #2: Cell phones emit radioactive waves that can potentially cause cancer.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones

Danger #3: In general, people are spending money uselessly to buy hi tech gadgets, like cell phones, when they don't really need them. In this ever growing capitalist consumer society, these kinds of technology is getting so much attention, when money earned from these gadgets could be spent somewhere else, for something much more helpful.