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I think I can come up with an alternate theory regarding why they were using text rather than voice comms - in a crisis like that the phone network often becomes overloaded (it happened during the London bombings - the phone companies took the sensible precaution of reserving a chunk of bandwidth for essential users such as fire, police, ambulance, etc). Texting uses less bandwidth and can often get through where a phone call would fail (you can also often send texts despite there being too little signal strength to call someone). <br /> <br />I agree about the dumbing though - we see the same problem here. Anything remotely technical (or that you need some knowledge to understand) is seen as being too much like hard work and less important than whatever micromind "celebrity" was seen falling out of a club drunk at 2am. With this sort of attitude in the media, is it any wonder people seem ever more clueless?
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