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We've never gotten there so it's an intriguing experiment regardless if you agree with it or not. 12 years ago I imagine most people thought it would be ludicro
by methodin 14y ago
We've never gotten there so it's an intriguing experiment regardless if you agree with it or not. 12 years ago I imagine most people thought it would be ludicrous that people would be walking around consumed in a mobile device - but that came to fruition just as stuff like this will.
- disappointment 14y agoBelieve it or not, we had PDAs back then. And before that, we had pocket TVs.
- marcusf 14y agoBut they were never mass market in the same way. Walk on to the tube today and 70% will have their noses buried in an iPhone (or less often, a 'droid). That wasn't the case with either PDA's or pocket TV's. Possibly with walkmans/iPods.
- abrahamsen 14y agoSMS among kids would also qualify, at least in Europe (took off later in the US for some reason).
- pvidler 14y ago> Possibly with walkmans/iPods And do books count as well? Not really devices, but just as absorbing, for some of us. I don't really understand why we think about electronic devices differently from every other human invention. A year or two ago, I had a short train commute (Loughborough to Leicester and back, on one of the main routes to London) on a daily basis and saw far more people immersed in books than in their phones -- I suspect it was a bit early in the day for the younger folk, though. In fact, it was more common to see business people using laptops than books and phones combined.
- Spearchucker 14y agoI got my first PDA (a Nokia 9000 Communicator) in 1997. It was first released in '96 (that'd be 16 years ago).