The evolution of the smart phone?

[malumbu]

Read an article in the Torygraph (comes free with a bottle of water at airports) that the Iphone 8 had to be a success or society will collapse.

How much more can it evolve? Doesn't it do already do everything you need to do already? An early adopted of mobile phones yet I was dragging my feet over coming into the modern world but swapping my work Blackberry for a Samsung S7 made me appreciate having a mobile computer in my pocket.

And downsides? Hungry Horse, mobile betting, twaddle on your Whatsapp groups, not needing to get out of bed, another nail in the coffin of our national sport, and even more difficult to arrange a meet up?

Anyway the connected world, sharing economy, internet of things etc all looks set to change everything.

A discussion thread, not my personal views (apart from not agreeing with the journo).

[Loz]

Well, obviously full integration with the central nervous system is the ultimate goal.

[rendelharris]

malumbu Wrote:

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> another nail in the coffin of our

> national sport

What have portable telephones to do with cricket?

[miga]

It might ultimately be the thing that saves the planet (with our greed for things causing all kinds of mayhem and exposing physical limits). Transitioning into a virtual reality might both keep the mess we've made out of sight, and let the resources replenish.

OR...we might reach singularity and become obsolete.

But less meta, and I'm not sure how much this is my becoming a grumpy old man, it's interesting how with so much information at the fingertips, general levels of ignorance aren't improving.

[Earl Aelfheah]

With each new model, the gains are becoming more and more marginal. Waterproof phones are good and the camera on the iPhone 7 takes very good portraits. But let's face it, most phones now do more than you need them too already. I mean how many apps do you regularly use - about 10% of them at most?

[malumbu]

Ha ha. Whether it be footy, cricket or tiddlywinks, no need to participate or spectate as your phone can do it all for you.

Stewart Lee does a good sketch which has far too many expletives about the good old days when you could go down to the pub and make things up in a conversation with the other blokes (or blokettes), rather than now when someone will Google it to check the facts. He doesn't add that smart phones should be banned, but I am sure that he is inferring it http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/written-for-love/my-perfect-pub/

Speaker in Westminster if you want a mobile free pub

[rendelharris]

Haven't been in for many a year but the Commercial in Herne Hill used to be mobile free. Thoroughly to be encouraged, particularly to stop those who continue their conversation while giving their order - sure they'd soon complain if the bar staff were as rude!

[Earl Aelfheah]

People going to a live event and then watch it through their phone. Urggghghghghhhhhh.