Friday, October 5, 2012

The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything



By Michael Saylor
Vanguard Press, 2012. 279 pgs.Nonfiction
Mobile Wave predicts the consequences of mobile internet technology in a wide spectrum of fields: education, entertainment, social networks, medicine, etc. Author Michael Saylor gives abundant examples of how mobile phones and other mobile devices can someday be used for financial transactions, tracking personal vital signs for medical conditions and more.  He maintains that the transformations may be difficult but many of them will be very positive – eliminating corruption and fraud and saving money.  Quality education will become available via mobile technology to millions of people around the world who presently lack access to adequate schools.  

Technology savvy readers have probably already been reading about the impact of mobile technology and won’t find much that is new in Michael Saylor’s book. But for the not so tech savvy person, this book is the perfect introduction to what the availability of cheap mobile devices and widespread broadband access will do to society, business and the economy. SH

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