Spiritual mobiles
posted by:Chris Young // 02:02 PM // March 24, 2005 // TechLife
The Economist has a story in their latest technology quarterly looking at how people around the world are integrating mobile phones into their traditional popular beliefs and customs. The article stresses that people's propensity to react this way stems in large part from mobile phones' particularly personal quality. "Mobile phones are a uniquely personal form of technology, thanks in large part to their mobility."
This can be taken as an indication of how readily ever-more personal types of technology will be accepted and used, including networked implants and highly personalized PDAs (of which mobile phones can be considered an early instance).
