Cell

I've recently been reading Stephen King's novel, Cell. In Cell, some kind of pulse gets transmitted from all of the cellphones at the same time, and this pulse turns everyone who picks up their cellphone into a brainless zombie-carnivorous and wild, resurfacing the id- and as they later find out, not brainless at all. Don't worry, I haven't finished the book yet, so no spoilers!

This pulse is caused by a chain reaction. One person gets a phone call, turns into Mr. Zombie, stumbles onto the street, some other normal person sees this and reaches for his/her cellphone to call for help, and the cycle begins once again.

Later on in the novel, when the protagonist and his friends (still not transformed), try to get out of the city, they realise how important cellphones have become in their lives; and the novel was written in 2006.

Now, imagine. With all the smartphones and the tablet pc's that literally grew on people, if something like The Pulse really happenned now, what would happen? Probably, Stephen King would have trouble finding any protagonists.

I'm not going to go off in tangents about the harms of radioactivity and cell towers, but with our current addiction to technology, our future doesn't seem very bright. All we can do is to hope that nobody's, especially no terrorist's, mind works like Stephen King's...