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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

If more than a billion people had a mobile phone by 2012, I’d have wondered, then what might our world look like? Our agricultural practices and policies? Our insurance industries? And of course, I’d have noticed the new gadget just released called the mobile phone, and probably declared that important as well.

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

If more than a billion people had a mobile phone by 2012, I’d have wondered, then what might our world look like? Our agricultural practices and policies? Our insurance industries? And of course, I’d have noticed the new gadget just released called the mobile phone, and probably declared that important as well.