When he was seven months old, my son picked up my iPhone, which he’d seen me use many times since he was born, and started jabbing at the screen. To him the device wasn’t so much a phone, but more something you touched and prodded and, unbeknownst to him, enjoyed. Early adopters were ridiculed, and many rela estate printing commentators suggested that such a thing would never take off. It would be too expensive, too cumbersome and would never achieve the critical mass of users needed to make it practical. Well, as we know now, that wasn’t the case. Mobile phones are everywhere, but as my young son – who is now 18 months old and can actually use, albeit rudimentarily, an iPhone – confirms, these devices are proving to be more than just phones. They have morphed in a very short period of time into computers in our pockets. The modern handset is connected to the Internet, has processing power that outstrips by some margin that found in the Apollo spacecrafts that got humankind to the moon, has a full color screen, can handle multimedia, and is connected to everyone else with a phone. This has become a modern […]
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