The Information Age With Cell Phones

The Information Age has radically changed in the past 20 years…

First published at C + R Research.

Over the past few decades, dramatic changes have taken place in terms of what information people have access to, and how easily they access it. For example, entrepreneur Peter Diamandis points out that a Maasai warrior on a smartphone in the middle of Kenya today has better mobile communication than President Reagan did while in office in the 1980s.

Furthermore, if you compare the information any 13-year-old kid with a smartphone can access in 2016, to the information President Bill Clinton had access to just 20 years ago, in many ways the 13-year-old comes out ahead, particularly in terms of quantity. The scale tips in...