Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:05:36 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Here comes a future ....
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj@gmail.com>
To: WSFA Official List <wsfa-forum@yahoogroups.com>, WSFA members <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@KeithLynch.net>

"The transformative power of smartphones comes from their size and
connectivity. Size makes them the first truly personal computers. The
phone takes the processing power of yesterday=E2=80=99s supercomputers=E2=
=80=94even
the most basic model has access to more number-crunching capacity than
NASA had when it put men on the Moon in 1969=E2=80=94and applies it to
ordinary human interactions"

"By their nature, seminal technologies ask hard questions of society,
especially as people adapt to them."

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21645180-smartphone-ubiquitous-addict=
ive-and-transformative-planet-phones

and here it is in the past:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=745

mjw