As technology develops to service a market hungry for the next innovation, there are always going to be people who are so struck by the brilliance of the new technology that they come to see it as a human need as important as oxygen, food or water. People develop addictions to technology which may not be seen as serious by everyone, but to some can be extremely debilitating. As a caveat, it is important to state that a cell phone addiction is not, in terms of physiological […]

ith the popularity of text messages since the end of the last century came the birth – or at least the mutation – of “text speak“. This was a way of shortening words so that a message could be sent containing as much information as 160 characters would allow. For some people, it was a way of squashing down a message so that it could be sent for as little money as possible. For others, it became the way that they conversed in text form. Even if […]

Back when the idea of mobile phones for all was still a science-fiction idea, most of us would probably have imagined that the thing which would get cell phones into the “everyday accessory” category would be the way that they allowed you to make phone calls wherever you went in the world. However, it could be argued that the real tipping point had little to do with voice calls. As the 20th century came to an end, the world saw a new innovation – text messaging. From […]