As a transhumanist, I beleive in what is known as The Singularity.
An idea in which technology’s ‘evolution’ increases at an increasingly rapid pace, until we reach the point of Singulairty, where what we regard as breakthroughs nowadays happen on a daily basis (indeed, it’s name was chosen to reflect that we cannot really predict what will happen in the near future, so you could argue that the Singulairty is a moving target, though one whose benefits will most definatly be visible)
Anyway, I’m going off topic.
Mobile phones have had an interesting history; they first started out as a HUGE microphone and speaker…THING…connected to something that weighs (and looks) very much like a car battery.
Jumping forward a bit, we had black and white (ok, black and green) screens, monotone ringtones and a huge antenna.
Nowadays we have made huge improvments, the antenna is safely tucked inside the unit, a good deal of phones can use GPS, battery life is quite long and memory storage increased from about 640k on the early ‘smartphones’ to as much as 160gb (which I beleive is currently the biggest storage unit in SD format.) Did I also mention the colour screen, most audio formats as ringtones, bluetooth, wi-fi, video calls, etc?
Many recents advancements have brought something to my attention, however.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/SSD-Stamp-NAND-Flash-Toshiba,9656.html
A one terabyte SSD, the size of a postage stamp.
Good bloody god.
Couple this with increased development with minute CPU’s and we are seriously looking at the phones coming to us in the next 10 years to be as powerful as a desktop today.
Also couple it with the use of open-source items like Android and the recently re-announced pairing of Moblin and Maemo (MeeGo) then we have a very interesting situation…
