No matter where you go they follow.  Emails and phone calls that used to wait for your return now join you pool side.  In discreet restaurants you hear the jangle of old telephones and hip hop millionaires - ring tones tell you a lot about the person with the phone. 

Yet it also makes life easier.  No waiting to get home to see what’s happening.  Constant contact with clients during important projects. 

And even better - immediate slide shows of the side trip that morning, then a posting on YouTube of the your friend singing Madonna while on her iPod.   

And when I look across Bangkok I can only wonder - what happens when every single person is equally connected?