This is not unlike what was said about a world without payphones: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/pay-phones-a-technology-for-the-poor-th

This is not unlike what was said about a world without payphones: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/pay-phones-a-technology-for-the-poor-thats-about-to-get-left-hanging/258406/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/06/pay-ph... And now the poor get prepaid cell phones or cheap contract service and they chat on their cell phones while in the Greyhound bus station. As smartphones get cheap they will become just as ubiquitous.