A smart phone enhances productivity and enables new ways of conducting business beyond the confines of the office. Data once reserved for offices is now on a much smaller, mobile and convenient device.
Netbooks is the next step
Retrieves and Rekindle
Interest in web mail services
SMART and iPhones and the like may make desktops or even laptops obsolete.
Tetrad Model
- Enhancements: What does this technology do that is new?
- Obsolescence/Obsolete: What does this technology replace?
- Retrieval/rekindles: What does this technology bring to mind (or retrieve) from the past?
- Reversal/Demise: What might replace this technology in the future, or what might it cause to occur?
Enhances Allows for new ways of conducting business outside of the confines of the office. Business can be conducted on a mobile device. | Obsoletes Has the potential to make desktops or even laptops obsolete. |
Rekindles Interest in web mail services and multi-tasking capabilities | Reverses |
References
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Silicon.com (2006). Analysis: What is a smartphone? retrieved from;
http://www.silicon.com/technology/mobile/2006/02/13/analysis-what-is-a-smartphone-3915639
Thornburg, D. D., (2008). Emerging technologies and McLuhan's Laws of Media.Lake Barrington Il: Thornburg Center for Space Exploration.
Henry,
ReplyDeleteSmartphones, I agree, will make computing devices obsolete at some level. Still, for high-end usage such as editing video and music as well as for designing web based applications, websites, photography and other sophisticated usage desktops will always be required. They will definitely be transformed but those of us who create and design will always need some sort of powerful computer :)
Henry,
ReplyDeleteIt is going to be very interesting to see which leads and which follows...Smarphones or netbooks. It's unfortunate the improved touchscreen viewing is ahead of the speed-capability for downloading media when you are outside of a Wi-Fi network. 3G just cannot keep up when we want faster loading and updating.