The Economist and NY Times on Mobility

The Economist has a special section on mobility and the new nomadism.  The section is 14 pages long, and covers a wide range of topics related to cell phones and mobile computing and how they are impacting business and society.  Excellent coverage on how the new mobility is changing work locations and office environments.  Lots of discussions of working at "third places" like coffee shops, and the increase in working from home. 

If the Economist article is not enough reading for you, the NY Times Magazine has an 8 page article called Can the Cell Phone Help End Global Poverty.  Great quote on the growth of cell phones:

"...it took about 20 years for the first billion mobile phones to sell worldwide. The second billion sold in four years, and the third billion sold in two. Eighty percent of the world’s population now lives within range of a cellular network, which is double the level in 2000."

One of the major points of the article is cell phones are fundamentally changing the economies of many developing countries.  From the article:

"Today, there are more than 3.3 billion mobile-phone subscriptions worldwide, which means that there are at least three billion people who don’t own cellphones, the bulk of them to be found in Africa and Asia. Even the smallest improvements in efficiency, amplified across those additional three billion people, could reshape the global economy in ways that we are just beginning to understand."

The growing impact of mobility, cell phones and mobile computing are hard to overestimate.

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