The Birth of the mobile information society
May 28th, 2005Never read The City in Your Pocket by Timo Kopomaa?
Then you should if you want to understand mobile:
THE FREEDOM PROVIDED by the mobile phone means that people are always available, even when moving, i.e. they are maximizing their contact potential. The more people have a mobile phone, the more complete this reachability becomes. The “need” behind the use of the mobile phones is not just a need for contacts but for autonomous life management, a need to expand the scope of this management both geographically and temporarily. The mobile phone is used to increase the potential in life and to decrease the feeling of possibly missing something.
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