Truly wireless : lifestyle - gadgets
Dewaldt Van Wyk · Without Prejudice · 2016
The '90s really was an awkward decade for technology in many ways. We were so proud of our noisy modems dialling up to the internet - and when mobile phones just came to South Africa, you had to clip one next to your beeper on your belt to show the world how connected you were. The fact that mobile phones were the size of bricks did not deter anybody from getting one either. Towards the end of the decade, the bricks were out of fashion and the only way to maintain yuppie status was to buy a ridiculously small mobile phone. What would be iconic of the 2010s? No doubt, apps - but in 2016 we are already moving into the post-app space where apps are no longer a feature but are rather the expected nature of a phone. Save for the QWERTY keyboard and external aerial that disappeared over the years, we still connect a cable to charge our phones - it is awkwardly like the '90s, or '80s even.