Cell phones were lurking in our subconscious long before they became real. Look at instances of magic books in old fantasy literature. For example in that wizar

Cell phones were lurking in our subconscious long before they became real. Look at instances of magic books in old fantasy literature. For example in that wizard's house in CS Lewis's "Voyage of the Dawn Treader". And magic mirrors too. Given that, it's like we hungered for them all along. They click into us like a lego brick. Also, I see "employers" demanding that their "employees" be accessible via cellphone basically all reasonable waking hours. So it has us by the wallet now.