“Mobile phones are transforming how people in the developing world access and use information, and adoption rates are soaring. There are already more than 650 million phone users in Africa, and close to 3 billion across Asia.”
After reading Our future selves, I came across this quote and there was a couple of things that made me think about something I haven’t before, and also there was new information to me. First, off the quote about the adoption rate soaring makes me think why? Why would the rates be soaring now? Is it because everyone is so in tune with their virtual life that they can’t seem to take care of a newborn child? Are they immature? I just don’t know why this was included that in here. Then the fact that there are 3 billion phone users in Asia when the entire population is about 4.1 billion. When I think of that it really means that almost every single person in Asia has a cellphone in use or maybe two. The ones not accounted for on the list must either be the elderly or newborns. This statistic really opened my eyes to how in tune our world is with technology these days.