Amen -- I agree with this so much! #5 worries me. We live in a "cell phone dead spot"...no cell phone has worked here yet. Qwest is our landline company and we pay $10.00 a month for unlimited long-distance!!!
One time I got a book from Reader's Digest that outlined all the changes over time in the USA. I picked the date 1900 - my grandmother's birth year -- and read all the changes that had occured from her birth year to her death in 1988...WOW!!!! But the changes from 1988 to 2010 is ALSO shocking and amazing!!!! She'd never have dreamed of being able to sit at a screen, in my jammies, and talk to people in other parts of the US AND the world!!!!!