Module 2: Tetrad for a Smart Phone

Tetrad of a Smart Phone

Progression #1

Enhances: The devices offers the ability for everyone to have access to anyone at anytime by phone, text, e-mail, videoconferencing, etcetera.

Obsoletes: Obsoletes the Cell Phone, GPS navigational device, Yellowbook, MP3 player, etcetera.

Retrieves/Rekindles: Retrieves the rotational dial phone with the long twisted cord and the big Yellowpages sitting beside it.

Reverses: Reverses into a wearable/implantable communication device that responds to brain waves, thoughts, and voice in an intellgent environment.

Progression #2

Enhances: Users will feel like they think and act simultaneously with this device. It begins to become a "part" of the user.

Obsoletes: Obsoletes the Smart Phone

Retrieves/Rekindles: Retrieves the cell phone that could only be used to make wireless phone calls from external locations.

Reverses: Reverses into a fully implantable device that seamlessly interacts with the user at a subconscious level.

Reference Links to other resources:

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Elon University/Pew Internet Project. (n.d.). Imagining the Internet: A history and forecast: Forward 150 timeline. Retrieved April 7, 2011, fromhttp://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/predictions/forward150years.pdf

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