The iPhone wasn’t just a phone: it was also a camera and a diary and a television and an address book and a notepad and an atlas and a radio and a torch and a calculator and a clock and a hi-fi and a cupboard full of games and a pile of remote controls and a minicab office and a bookshop and a fitness instructor and a tour guide and a translator and a weather forecaster and a travel agent and a genius. It was like a cross between the contents of a school bag and everything else in the world. This was a device which revolutionized our attention spans, crushing them down smaller than ever
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