The mobile revolution

Along with the internet, with which the mobile phone network is rapidly merging, this is the most astonishing technology story of our time, and one that has the power to revolutionise access to information across the developing world. The BBC reports.

... "It's time that we recognize that for the majority of the world's population, and for the foreseeable future, the cell phone is the computer, and it will be the portal to the internet, and the communications tool, and the schoolbook, and the vaccination record, and the family album, and many other things, just as soon as someone, somewhere, sits down and writes the software that allows these functions to be performed."

emily | 8:34 AM | Mobile phone projects - Developing World |
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