
What is even more interesting with cell phones and other wireless com-
munications devices is the issue of convergence. It is not enough that we use cell
phones to talk to one another. We want to be able to do everything with a
cell phone that we can do with a home computer. This means sending and
receiving live video, playing games, converting spoken messages to email,
translating foreign speech on the fly, reading email, accessing the Internet,
watching streaming video, and so on.
No, cell phones will not be able to do these things as well as desktop com
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puters. But they will be just good enough. It’s the worse-is-better tenet again.
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