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Sometimes, I like to stop and think about all the amazing things that we can do with our phones and that we take for granted.

What I do is to imagine myself finding a smartphone in elementary school (90s kid). These are a few things that would blow my mind:

- Having a digital global map, with multitouch, that can show me where I am in that map. I can search anything and find reviews from virtually anywhere in the world. I can zoom and see my actual house. I can use street view.

- I have access to any song I want.

- The phone can listen to a song and it can tell me the name of it (then I can listen to it again)

- I can play video games with much better graphics than my N64

- I can watch movies and TV in there.

- I can video call

- I have a digital assistant

- I can find any answer online

- I can buy anything online

- In the future all this technology is not just for the rich, virtually anyone can buy a smartphone.



My goto example is that I'm now able to see the text of the text message I'm replying to while typing the reply.


In 2004 I took my grandpa for a ride in my car, which had GPS. He couldn't stop staring at it. I asked him what's wrong, and he said, "When I was an insurance salesman driving door to door in LA, I had entire file folder of maps I kept on the passenger seat to find my way. If I had this gadget back then, I could have sold twice as much insurance".


> I can play video games with much better graphics than my N64

And - you can play N64 games on a rectangle you can carry in your pocket.




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