By Simon Elmer: "So-called ‘smart phones’ - far more accurately described as ‘dumb phones’ -— combine a mobile phone with a watch, with a road map, with a tourist atlas of the world, with a digital camera, with a personal stereo system, with a music collection, with a video recorder, with a diary, with a calculator, with a credit card, with a travelcard, with an office key, with a torch, with a newspaper, with a television, with something to read on the train, and probably a lot more. I don’t know, because I don’t own one. ‘But it’s so convenient!’ cry those who stare unbelieving at my twenty-year-old Nokia. To which I reply: ‘Convenience breeds compliance.’ But to what? Since they were first introduced into our lives in 2008, smartphones have become . . . " (contd) Read more here . . .
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