iDols
Are they tools to serve us or gods to rule us?
The thing that does everything
History won’t forget the Apple Keynote event of 2007 when the first iPhone was unveiled. Steve Jobs teases the world with promises of, “Three revolutionary products.”
The first is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. The third is a breakthrough internet communications device. As we now know, there’s a twist to these three products. Instead of being separate gadgets, they are all functions of a single device: the iPhone.
This supercomputer, small enough to fit comfortably in your pocket, became the focal point of entertainment, work, and social interaction. With the fast development of apps and better hardware, our phones quickly integrated into our moment-to-moment lives and altered our habits.
We have tried to consolidate our lives into a single slab of glass and plastic. Everything from banking to shopping to watching movies can all take place on a six-inch screen.
iDols
With so much power and convenience at our fingertips, who would want to return to the days of pre-2007? Today, with over a decade of smartphone use to reflect on, how do we compare it to the previous decade when we carried flip phones?
