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The year was 2007, and I was hanging out with some friends who were techies. They always had the latest tech gear and in 2007, the latest tech gear was a new phone that Apple had put out. A phone that didn't have a physical keypad. A touch screen phone! Can you imagine that? They were showing off their new iPhones and the rest of us were gathered around to check out this crazy new phone. I remember trying it out and accidently clicking on something and struggling to figure out how to navigate on it. I thought it was all going to be a fad and we'd be back to using our Blackberries, with their physical keyboards, soon.Fast forward a few years and along with almost everyone else in the world, I had my own smart phone. The meteoric rise of handheld computing devices has changed a lot of things in our culture. For many of us, these devices are the primary way in which we use the internet and interact with computers. These...
