If you do most of your typing with your thumbs then "the device in your pocket" is your PDA or cell phone. Speaking as one for whom the phrase "the device in your pocket" conjures the image of an object made before electricity was available to manufacturing (a key-wind pocket watch), I identify myself as a temporal visitor to what I consider as the future.

The concept as well as the sense of time is rooted in our biology, (of course the same may be said of all we experience). When we are very young, days, months and years seem vast, but as we age the duration of our experience of these objective time delineations, shrinks. As we reach adolescence, our biology sends as the message that our time has come; that's why old-timers use the phrase "back in my day". As one who frequents estate sales, I have observed that the decor in many of these estates seemed frozen at some previous era. One's home is a reflection of one's interior habitat, one's mind. As the flood of hormones, characterized by adolescence, begins to recede, the era with which one identifies becomes set such that all future nuance of a coming era is no longer as deeply impressed. As with all things, the one least likely to recognize such phenomena, are those most effected by it.

While identifying with manifested existence one is bound to the dictates of time and space, however, when one becomes aware of what lies beyond, recognition of the infinite and eternal self, dawns.