Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case writes in her Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology that "the structure of the cell phone is very similar to that of a pocket pet."
Despite their efforts, carriers are still not moving fast enough, said Amber Case, founder of GeoLoqi, a geolocation toolkit provider, at the Mobile Summit. (Speaking from the crowd, AT&T’s senior executive VP of technology, John Donovan, took exception to that statement, and pointed out the many ways AT&T has embraced innovation and is trying to enable faster development and deployment on its network.)