Cell phones are currently revolutionizing life for the better in unexpected ways in many of the poorer areas of the world that only recently got cell phone serv

Cell phones are currently revolutionizing life for the better in unexpected ways in many of the poorer areas of the world that only recently got cell phone service as their first phone service of any kind. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have made a good argument that smartphones will soon be cheaper than conventional cell phones, which will be all the more true in nations where few if any patents have ever issued on all their special sauce. In the next decade, untold millions of the world's poor will be acquiring smartphones as their first and for a while only computers, and gaining access to all the benefit of the Internet.