This story is an example of the use of technology to make life a little better.
I was on the bus this morning with another colleague from a different department at Penn State. He had a zippy phone that functions as a phone, a PDA, a camera, etc. He was checking
his email and looked up to find the shuttle bus that he wanted to catch about 3 cars ahead of our bus. He called the driver on the phone, said, "this is John, I'm on the bus behind you. Can you wait at the next stop so I can hop on?" Sure enough, he waited, we pulled in behind him, and John got to work a little earlier. Technology at its finest. I was impressed he had the cell phone of the bus driver.