”...It’s time that we recognised that for the majority of the world’s population, and for the foreseeable future, the cell phone is the computer, and it will be the portal to the internet, and the communications tool, and the schoolbook, and the vaccination record, and the family album, and many other things, just as soon as someone, somewhere, sits down and writes the software that allows these functions to be performed.”
Link: The invisible computer revolution (bbc.co.uk, via)
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Tags: computing, countries, developing, devices, emerging, markets, mobile, phone, platform
