Whenfullyusedwithinasocialcollectivitythecellphoneeffectsatransformation of social systems from the “solid” state of rigid scheduling to a “liquid” state of permanently ongoing processes of dynamic coordination and renegotiations. Such social settings are “real-time systems” where everything happening is conditioned by current situations, while the impactof the past (effected through rules and schedules) and of the future (impinging in the form of planning activities) declines