Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Abstract: I "Each generation has a defining technology -the baby boomers were defined by the television.We will have a cohort of people around the world who have mobiles giving them togetherness.And we can expect this identification to have consequences for how we constitute and carry ourselves politically!!"Howard Rheingold, 2005, a futurologist "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."Gibbs, 2012, American Journalist "The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."Bill Gates, 2001, Founder of Microsoft "Mobile is the enabling centerpiece of digital convergence.Mobile is the glue for all other digital industries to use when approaching convergence, but mobile is also the digital gateway for the real world to join in this global metamorphosis of human behavior."Tomi Ahonen, 2013, IT Consultant "…building a people-centred and inclusive information society, putting the potential of information and communication technologies at the service of development and addressing new challenges of the information society.." United
Author: Salim Qatoob Al Amri
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2949045655