The Mobile Revolution

This chapter contains sections titled: The First Mobile Phones Were Heavy Loads, The World Goes Mobile, Texting Joins Talking, Beyond Talking and Texting: The Smartphone, Computers Have Become Mobile and Wireless, Living in the Cloud, Continuous Access and Hyperconnectivity, Controlling the Volume and Social Interactions, Ad Hoc Communities Using Mobile Communication, The New Choreography of Physical Gatherings, Longer Encounters, The Weakening — But Not the Death — of Distance, Connected Presence, Absent Presence, and Present Absence, The Blurring Boundaries of Public and Private Spaces, The Triple Revolution Pushes on: Mobile + Internet + Social Networks,