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.
