The writing and publishing of this editorial begins and ends with the use of a smartphone. The editor-in-chief instructs the writer to prepare the editorial for a certain date of publication. The writer proceeds to perform word-processing on a laptop, then creates the document file, and transmits it to the editor’s email as well as Viber account on smartphone. On April 3, 1973, the first call on a cell phone, the precursor of today’s smartphone, was made by Martin Cooper, Motorola’s vice president for research and development. Indeed, the cell phone has come a long way to become the ubiquitous go-to device of the inhabitants of planet earth. It was not until the 1990s that cell phones became popular, as the number of mobile users reached around 11 million. It is estimated that there would be about 18 billion smartphones in use by 2025, or four times the world’s population. How did we get this far since the first cell phone call 50 years ago? At the Macworld Conference on Jan. 9, 2007, Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a new mobile phone that could be used as a camera and a digital musical player. Previous […]
Digital transformation: Toward a gentler, kinder world
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