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Cell phones are becoming less and less phones and becoming our interface to everything and becoming more powerful every day especially offering voice interface to AI which is already here in a limited way and will soon dominate. It should now not be called a phone any more, but our personal digital assistant. Already the digital assistant is able to interface with just about everything to some extent and in just a few years it will interface with everything. This will change everything from our vocations, social life, transportation, finances and everything else. This trend will change everything from countries, companies, education, finance, shopping, transportation, literally everything. How it is going to change occupations, social structure, education, governance is going to be the ultimate wild card. We are about to enter a Brave New World at a speed that most haven't even imagined.
I guess we are coming full circle here, we already had this, they called handheld devices PDA before they added the phone functionality. I had one way back when, except that it wasn't connected...