Not many people in the eighties could have predicted how popular the mobile phone would become. If you told someone back then that there would be a time when everyone would carry around one of these phones, they would not have believed you. But today most people do indeed have their own mobile phone and picturing a world with no mobiles at all is something that most young people cannot do. Even if you visit the poorest and most remote parts of the world you are still likely to see people with mobile phones.
And what is most amazing is that this rise from no mobiles to everyone having them has happened in a little over two decades. That is why it has become really interesting to wonder what the future will be like. Technology today is really moving very fast and so people are beginning to wonder whether mobile phones will be still around in a decade.
Every time a new device is introduced onto the market there seem to be significant changes to what we are used to. They have gone from just being something to phone and text with to being complete entertainment stations. These days there seems to be no end to the things we can do with our mobile phones; it is possible to write assignments for work, send emails, play games, listen to music, watch movies, surf the web or get onto social media sites and update profiles.
In fact there has to be a time soon when we stop referring to them as mobile phones at all because this is only one of the many functions. Even within the last couple of years there have been huge advances with this technology so what will happen in another ten years.
When you think about what might be ahead of us, it is hard not to get excited. I confidently predict that the words 'mobile phone' will sound completely out-of-date by 2020 - we will look upon it as we now look upon a Walkman. Perhaps by 2020 our mobile technology will be in the form of jewellery. It is sort of hard to imagine how the things are going to advance but the only certain thing is that they are sure to do so.
And what is most amazing is that this rise from no mobiles to everyone having them has happened in a little over two decades. That is why it has become really interesting to wonder what the future will be like. Technology today is really moving very fast and so people are beginning to wonder whether mobile phones will be still around in a decade.
Every time a new device is introduced onto the market there seem to be significant changes to what we are used to. They have gone from just being something to phone and text with to being complete entertainment stations. These days there seems to be no end to the things we can do with our mobile phones; it is possible to write assignments for work, send emails, play games, listen to music, watch movies, surf the web or get onto social media sites and update profiles.
In fact there has to be a time soon when we stop referring to them as mobile phones at all because this is only one of the many functions. Even within the last couple of years there have been huge advances with this technology so what will happen in another ten years.
When you think about what might be ahead of us, it is hard not to get excited. I confidently predict that the words 'mobile phone' will sound completely out-of-date by 2020 - we will look upon it as we now look upon a Walkman. Perhaps by 2020 our mobile technology will be in the form of jewellery. It is sort of hard to imagine how the things are going to advance but the only certain thing is that they are sure to do so.
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