Sounds like Howard Rheingold’s vision may be coming true. This article from the NY Times does a nice summation of the trends for 2003.
Scary quote: “And customers will spend as much as $200 million next year just in downloading new ring tones, including show tunes and snippets from popular music, to replace those that come with every phone, Mr. McAteer said.” Let’s see…how many starving children could that feed?
And, if you have a media mind like me, check out this scary story…and we thought 2002 was bad.
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