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After reading “Time for a new kind of phone booth” by Bob Greene, CNN Contributor and bestselling author whose books include “Late Edition: A Love Story” and “When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams,” I think the idea of bringing back phone booths is not necessary. It’s a waste of time to do this project because I don’t think people need phone booths while they always have their cell phone anytime and anyplace. Phone booths used to be a useful and important thing in the past, but it can’t be used popularly now and absolutely in the future. I think we should find the way to improve our technology rather than thinking about using old-fashioned booth again. First, I want to tell something about phone booth in the past. Phone booth used to be used widely because at that moment people didn’t have cell phone. It was the unique and the fastest way for person to communicate with each others. They located everywhere on street and public places. But coming out of home phone and cell phone gradually replaced their position and role. In the past, if you wanted to make a call somebody, you had to go around and found phone booth. Moreover, if the phone booth was full, you had to wait and then you could use it. It really wasted the time. What would happen If you had emergency and needed a call, you couldn’t wait to your turn to use

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