There are all kinds of benefits to having a mobile phone, the best of which is for safety reasons. Help is only a call away.

Yet as you wait in line to see The Hobbit this weekend, or partake in any routine daily activity, consider some of the subtle and not-so-subtle by products of being a mobile society. Here’s a fun depiction of “then” (life before cellphones) and “now” as digitally-connected ones.

(Via Tastefully Offensive)