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Endgadget (May 16)

2019/ 05/ 18 by jd in Global News

“Japan plans to release 10-billion 14-digit numbers by 2021,” but the country “likely won’t be the only nation facing the problem of needing more numbers for more devices. Last year, the number of IoT devices in the world surpassed the number of mobile phones. Since 2008, there have been more connected devices on the planet than people, and by 2020 it’s predicted that there will be 50 billion connected devices globally.

 

The Economist (January 7)

2017/ 01/ 08 by jd in Global News

“Voice has the power to transform computing, by providing a natural means of interaction….  Being able to talk to computers abolishes the need for the abstraction of a ‘user interface’ at all. Just as mobile phones were more than existing phones without wires, and cars were more than carriages without horses, so computers without screens and keyboards have the potential to be more useful, powerful and ubiquitous than people can imagine today.”

 

Time (August 16)

2012/ 08/ 18 by jd in Global News

Mobile phones have rapidly transformed our lives. “It is hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. Not the knife or match, the pen or page.” We have grown “accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips. A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.”

Mobile phones have rapidly transformed our lives. “It is hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones. Not the knife or match, the pen or page.” We have grown “accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips. A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon. In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.”

 

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