Smart Phones make stupid users

My son lost his phone (Samsung) the other day and when found it had been stepped on and snowed on.  Big bummer.  Oh well, these things happen.  What he seemed to be concerned more about was the loss of his contact list.  We extracted the micro sd card from the new phone and dropped it in his old blackberry and got nothing.  My guess was that broken phone saved it in a format that the new phone could not read...   Any ideas?

Anyway we got to discussing how the rise of smart phones means that most users will rely on the contact list to call and text people they need to communicate with.  Really smart phones make stupid users.  Just think if I told you that all the DNS servers were down and that you could surf the web but you would have to type in the IP addresses to get there.  Some of us could probably get to one or two sites but after that it's a shot in the dark.

As we use more technology we get more dependent. At some point that dependency comes back to bite.