by Linzi Nuttall
Try and think of someone you know who doesn’t have a mobile phone (dismissing anybody over the age of 70 and under the age of six) and it proves to be quite a challenge, right?
So it is not surprising that a report out by Cisco this week highlights that by the end of the year, the amount of connected mobile phones will outnumber the amount of people on earth.
But only a matter of years ago mobile phones did not even exist, so how have we become so reliant on them so quickly?
Walking down a busy high street, it would be almost impossible not to see someone with their phone glued to their ear, or fingers rapidly tapping across the keyboard texting.
And we have all had the nightmare of forgetting our phone. If you have ever accidently left your phone at work for the weekend, or even the evening, you will know it can feel like part of you is missing, like you have suddenly become disconnected from the world – which is just a bit, well pathetic.
But can you imagine going back to the days where you have to actually call a house phone to arrange to meet a friend and then waiting ages for that friend who is running late but has not been able to contact you to let you know? The Dark Ages.
So following this report, the message from us at Whosits and Whatsits is, instead of feeling ashamed by being so reliant on our mobile phones; let’s embrace them in the knowledge that by 2016 10 billion mobile phone users across the world will be doing the same.
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