Google's Android OS is pushing connectivity towards a type of seamless, globalized texture which will change life east of the Cooper in ways more radical than the internet already has.

Two months ago, I upgraded my cell phone to a Motorola Droid. Like the iPhone and other high end smart phones, it connects social media like Twitter and Facebook with e-mail, the Web and geolocation. It can function as a media player, reader, still camera and video camera. It even makes calls.

It has a snap out keyboard, a touch screen and voice recognition. If I had a sharp sense of personal style and lost weight, it would help me be cool. My wife complains it just enables more complex forms of self absorption. It was a huge upgrade from my Treo, the world's best smart phone four years ago, an age in the surging and competitive world of connectivity.

When signing on for my new service, I was assigned a new gmail address, wjhamilton29464@gmail.com. I've had a gmail account for years, but never used it. I lacked the codes necessary to port my regular e-mail account to the new phone, so I began to use gmail.What Google has created in the Android Operating System is not a personal information manager, but a connected digital tie in to the personalized infostream many people now use to manage their personal and professional lives, which in the process become fused in time and awareness. Things done on your desktop appear on the Droid. An incoming call pops up a full record of recent contacts. From there you can check their tweets, find the location of their home or work, e-mail them or schedule a meeting. In my case, my phone sends out a signal saying where I am, so they can find me. Google's calendar pulls activity together. Gmail, buzz and other communication methods send the connected activity out. It slows down at night, but never stops.

It happens even in SC, a place where many leaders still delude themselves into believing the future with its speed and intense, competitive awareness, will spare us. I'm currently working on a major political project, the kind where the DC area code calls get a special ring tone. The people on the other ends of those calls have been doing this for years. They're relieved when I can import their events to my calendar and share them to the members of our organization here. Because I can do that, they're willing to listen to me, or much more accurately, share an info stream which connects our project and their people and resources.

I'm hoping that one of those calls will be from the White House. I would like to believe the moment may come when Rahm Emmanuel decides the administration must connect with a liberal blogger who lives within 25 miles of Goose Creek and tweets three or more times a day.

It may never happen, but it could. I'm ready. I can direct message them back on Twitter, book a flight and find their house. Or it might be an updated grocery list e-mailed by my wife. I'm connected to both possibilities.

(William Hamilton (www.wjhamilton.com) is an attorney who lives in I'On Village.)