[Leica] A World in Communication

[spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)]

So true. In China, migrant workers scrimp and save to send money home to 
support their family. However they always have their mobile phone so they 
can be reached. Many of them (migrants and otherwise) now use their 
smartphone as their primary window to the world. It?s their camera, their 
picture frame, their TV, their bank, their shopping centre, their travel 
agent, and etc.

I have a snapshot (lost on my hard drive) taken at a subway station in 
Beijing where the 10 people lined up waiting for the train are all looking 
at their phone and no one is actually paying any attention to their 
environment. It?s the new reality. 

Regards,
Spencer

> On Nov 30, 2015, at 22:26, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> The modern world....I think it is the most important and revolutionary
> gadget of our times. There are more important and critical uses that a
> mobile phone is being put to in the third world - like banking and
> fund transfers into very remote, hitherto unbanked areas, crop
> information to farmers in the boondocks, and so on and so forth.
> Cheers
> Jayanand