While in Greece I did not quite go into technology withdrawal, as I had a laptop and
portable printer with me. The computer had two official purposes, paper writing and
learning to program in Java. I had however loaded a single game, shareware Quake, onto
it before leaving. Both Bruce and I were able to beat the shareware version of Quake at
the hardest level with one life by the end of the trip.The picture shows me standing under a Commodore Computer center sign (sigh, a C-64 was my first computer) but Greece has modern technology available, if you have the money to pay for it. For example: Internet access for 3 months would cost about 230 US$, plus whatever the phone charges would be.
In Athens, which has around 4.5 million inhabitants, there are only 1 million wired phone lines, and probably almost a half million cellular phones. They do not have the infrastructure in place to support large amounts of phone lines running across the city, and it is sometimes cheaper (and more convenient) for people to buy a cell phone
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