Are we too into our phones that we tend to forget what really matters? Food for thought mga ka-GetNice Retrenchment and Reconfiguration: The Cellular Phone "Without my cell phone my emotional life would be in ruins." - Sarah, from Willow Grove, PA The erosion of face-to-face community, a coherent and centered sense of self, moral bearings, depth of relationship, and the uprooting of meaning from material context: such are the repercussions of absent presence. Such are the results of the development and proliferation of our major communication technologies of the past century. Yet, curiously enough the telephone was not included in the preceding discussion of absent presence.