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Eek! Dinosaurs are roaming the earth again!

I always marvel at how fast technology develops, especially where the telecommunication sector has gone, in just barely 15 years.

Back in 1994, pagers were the rage. It’s obvious, nobody wants to be seen lugging a “mobile” telephone around. Not even when it is packaged neatly in a briefcase. We don’t see it now with laptops, and you won’t see it with the next device they manage to make portable.

I still remember fondly how public phones were so common people didn’t give a thought to get mobile phones; basically businessmen were just a beeper’s width away, and had the convenience of returning the page as and when they felt like it. Sometimes, I miss that convenience, mobile phones has just made it that much easier for people to call while you are sleeping.

That aside, we can see how mobile phones have shrunk from the derivative of the stereo-typical telephone to the now light-weights that can no longer be used for self-defence. Transmitter, battery, speaker, microphone and processor all miniaturised into a space that is easily hefted, and stolen.

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