The Tethered Internet

Here's a worrisome observation about the technology that iPhone, the argument goes, typifies.

But that can't be right, can it? We do have this, which is, I think, "unthethered." (Thanks for the reference, Instapundit)

Then there's Despair and Amplifier. Those Sewell and Stokes boys aren't exactly tethered or tetherable, if the latter is a word.