One of my favorite YouTube videos from 2009 about the internet, technology and media, predicted that smart phones would be the primary device in 2020.
Should I post the full video?
@dansup sure! I'm a bit sad about how many of those devices have keyboards and we have practically none today
I still can't understand how something that's so frustrating to type on can be someone's primary device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like why would one voluntarily use their phone when they have a laptop in the same room
@dansup Link, please!
There is a book - series, actually, fiction - that started in I think the late 80’s, I read it in the 90’s, and it NAILED the rise of personal-pocket-communication AND the resulting social media hellscape we now have. A couple years before TB-L figured out a hyperlink.
I find reviewing these prescient things fascinating, if a little depressing.
@dansup this is certainly true in developing countries, mobiles being the primary device people use to get online.
@dansup it happened sooner than 2020 too!
* depending on how wide your view is (includes Africa / Asia, include youth or not)