10 Every day we ask someone where they are. It's a common enough question when we use our mobile phones to talk to our child or to confirm that the friend we were meeting is late. But we hardly stop to think that this question was, until not long ago, quite stupid. Forty years ago and apart from some special context, like a philosophy seminar or a psychiatric hospital, no one asked another person where they were. When we chatted with someone, it was because we had them in front of us or on the other end of the phone line, whose location was well known. All this has lost its meaning with mobile phones.

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