Sunday, March 30, 2008 -- 10:32 p.m. -- at my desk

Tonight, as I was reading everything in the Chicago Tribune over the weekend, I came across a very interesting column by always entertaining columnist Mary Schmich.

Her column, Envisioning what 2040 holds for city, is a look at what students from Whitney Young High School in Chicago think the world and Chicago will be like in 2040.

And while there are some great and intriguing answers, like sewage will be used as household fuel. there's one that obviously stood out to the staff's iPhone blogger:

And almost no one, they said, will use the phone for speaking. Even now, they think it's strange to see people talk on the phone instead of text.

You know, I can't say I disagree.

I have the cheapest amount of minutes possible on an AT&T-iPhone plan and I have plenty (read: a boatload) of Rollover Minutes. It's because I text much more than I talk, and I still don't go over about 500 texts.

I think it's safe to say that our cell phones will be drastically different that what we use today, but as far as talking on them ... I would agree with the kids in this case.

What do you think? What do you envision for the iPhone of 2040?

Thanks for calling.

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The kids are right. I text much more now than I talk on the phone now that I've gotten used to doing it and my close friends have also. My text volume is about the same as yours is. It's much more personal and less obnoxious than having other people listening to your conversations and I find myself even texting a lot from home now. If my friends, many of whom are married with kids want or have time to respond, fine. If they don't, that's fine too and at least they know what I've said or thought about something and sometimes I'm just alerting them to something that I know they're probably too busy to be aware of or bother with. I still need to get better at using the virtual keyboard thou; still make more mistakes than I think I should after the amount of time I've spent using it. I think being able to text in landscape mode would help also.

SCOTT'S REPLY: And yet I know folks who love to text who say there is just no substitute for talking. I agree with that somewhat, but in general, I just prefer to text for the reasons you stated.

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