you are comparing medicin with cellphones. It's not like comparing medicin with post-its but it's getting close.

Before mobile phones, people just died all over the place if they were within arm's reach of a landline phone. It's amazing we got this far without any phones at all, so many unanswered questions. How did we coordinate coming down from the trees? How did we find our way out of africa without a GPS? How did we communicate with anyone at all??