Cable Dependency: The Burden of Modern Living

Nakamora carefully dialed the number to unlock his bag. He needed to re-open it. He blamed it all on his checklists, which he prepared. He was then blaming himself, but he hated to do so directly. The travel checklist was just not complete.
It should have listed all cables, not cluster everything under a single item 'cable' and expects him to reconstruct the list of all cables he has to bring along for that 10-day trip. Yes, that's modern life. Everything depends on cable to continue to be useful, all types of cable, visible or otherwise.
He got the bag opened and started checking. Cable for the laptop, yes he got it. Cable for the digital camera, he got that too. Cable for the hand phone, no problem, it's in. Yes, that was the one not yet in. Cable for his personal digital assistant, PDA. Cable transfer for the digital camera, yes that was in too. There is just one more cable, for his MP3. And, he almost forgot, another one for the card reader. He may want to transfer the photos from his camera to his laptop, if time permits, and if the camera memory is full, whichever comes first.
Except for the digital camera all the rest are some form of communication devices. With his laptop he can use the internet, e-mail, messenger, and even Skype phone. Definitely the hand phone can be used to communicate too, so as the PDA. There are function overlaps, and he wondered if he could just leave some home. That would relieve the burden of checking all the cables. But perhaps no. Yes, they all can be used as communication devices but the condition and mode of communication each of them operates are different. It's a complicated world, isn't it. One mode of communication is no longer adequate.