PC-centric computing is giving way to the age of Mobile Broadband, best exemplified by iPhone, the first caveat-free mobile platform.
This article, a Guest Post that I wrote for O'Reilly Radar, looks at the elements that will define mobile computing.
Here's an excerpt:
Forty years ago, media theorist Marshall McLuhan asserted that the “medium is the message,” as a way of underscoring how different forms of media are imbued with their own contextual forms of meaning.
Yet, as we sit at the waking hours of the Mobile Broadband Era, it is hard not to conclude that it is The Message that is to be the defining characteristic of this era.
Why, The Message? Simply put, messages have compelling
attributes. One, they can be date stamped and packaged up to elegantly
deal with both real-time and asynchronous communication scenarios.
Read the full article HERE.
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