Mobile Mania
Always on. Always with you.
Always
connected.
The world is
changing as
the cellphone
becomes the
computer. By Simon Silvester.
When computers were first invented, they were the
size of a room.
By 1970, they had shrunk to the size of a car.
By 1982, they would sit on a desk.
By 1995, they were portable.
Today we have reached the age where a big, powerful
computer fits neatly inside a cellphone.
Small enoughThis latest stage is the most important.
For the past fifty years, using a computer has always
meant sitting down in front of that computer.
Followed by a start up process.
And then launching applications.
This desk-centric process has been so fundamental
to computing, it has defined the way people think of
them.
The first menu command in 80% of computer software
today is still the desky word ‘File’.
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