In 2007, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs announced the launch of the first iPhone (smartphone), a hand-held device that would radically change the way we think as well as interact with one another.
Within a few years, with smartphones operating on the Android system also entering the market, the digital revolution was in full bloom. Today it is nearly impossible to do anything without owning a smartphone, regardless of one’s economic status.
Lyman Stone, Peter Foreshaw Brookes, The Critic
Lenore Skenazy, Los Angeles Times
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