Divergent pockets required for convergent equipments

The problem wif progress and technology................it adds tings tt we "must" carry around to survive in the society. First it was keys. A couple of decades ago when pple live in villages where you know all ur neighbours, nobody bothers to lock up their house since everyone else could be trusted to look after you belongings. But today? Most people have to navigate thru 2 sets of lock just to enter the house.
A couple of decades ago, all people had was cash in the form of notes and coins. The wallet serves a simple function of containing these fortune. But today? A peek into a bulging wallet reveals not jus cash, but also credit cards, debit cards, atm cards, cash cards, name cards, discount cards, membership cards, etc, etc. Do we really need so many of them? It is possible.
Similarly, it was only slightly less than a decade ago that handphones r nice to have accessories. It makes life slightly more convenient n maybi a symbol of wealth......tts about all. Who would have thought that it is now a practically must-have in this fast-paced society? I'll be lost from my friends......instructions will take ages to pass down........appointments must be made real early......blah blah blah.
And then there is music. The fast-paced society ensure little time for personal recreation. As such.......interest in music had to be squeezed into non-productive times such as during travelling or while walking. Past technology such as walkman or discman made music portable. But recent technology such as flash based mp3 players made music truely portable and fashionable. It became a must have not jus for the music enthusiast.
Lastly there is the shuttlebug in all of us, the little paparazzi or the urge to capture a fleeting memory. Digital cameras, being so small and convenient quickly got accepted into our tag-alongs.
All these items eventually made their way into my pockets and suddenly, I realised that I had insufficient pockets in a standard pants. The unimaginable in the past.
Fortunately, there is convergent equipment like my present handphone, the sony ericsson k750i. Kudos to the technophiles out there who thought of combining the camera, mp3 player and handphone into one small, handy and attractive device.
So as u can c here.......we cant blame technology totally. If i did not have this convergent device, I wld need to carry a camera, handphone, mp3 player, alarm clock, notepad n pen, calculator, torchlight and gaming device separately......tt wld be unimaginable wld it?
Having said all these, I guess it is inevitable when "gd to have" becomes "must have" due to technology. But thankfully, technology made it so much easier to have them all at the same time. I guess the technophile in me cant wait for the future to shower its gadgets on me....regardless of the number of pockets I will have.