Some said it was inevitable; others thought it impossible; many didn’t notice–that is, the day the mobile Internet destroyed the Web. Seers had warned about the day the Internet died.
The death of the internet crept up slowly, like a snow leopard, its mouth salivating. But no one could stop it. After cyber attacks on banks, corporations and governments, digital doomsday had already happened. The traditional Internet became useless.
But the mobile internet survived and prospered. Throughout the world, 75% of all mobile handsets connected through wireless networks end-to-end. 3G and 4G networks dominated mobile communications. The world went–and stayed–wireless.
Point-to-multipoint dishes dotted nearly every neighborhood and village. Landlines had long disappeared, telephone posts standing like majestic totem poles covered with graffiti.
Strong WiFi signals connected wirelessly to central offices, blanketed cities, creating a mobile internet connection for millions.
Mobile applications soared as mobile internet broadband signals circled the globe, bypassing wireless carriers who died in the previous decade. Mobile communities flourished.
Education, in particular, benefited as mobile internet services created connectedness and new mobile phone learning models.
Mobile health care services reduced health care costs by $1 trillion dollars within five years in the United States, improving quality of health while decreasing Medicare and overall medical costs. Politicians who opposed the changes lost re-election. Corporate health lobbyists for insurance companies slithered out of Washington. Health insurance companies opposing cost-reduction failed.
Entertainment went mobile, wireless, portable.
Marketers and advertisers slowly realized the power of mobile social media marketing. Clung to it. Embraced it. Used it. Profited. Traditional advertising methods on the dead Internet stopped working. Mobile blogs and microblogs, podcasts and forums skyrocketed. Mobile Facebook users became the top targeted audience.
But that was just the beginning…
In the ensuing years, mobile and wireless devices morphed into increasingly specialized tools for personal and business use. Where there was a need, a mobile invention occurred.
Mobile and wireless hardware and software continually changed, improved and dominated human communications. A new paradigm emerged as social media conversations led to mobile inventions. Product managers increasingly turned to social websites to discover product and service needs and wants.
And it was all done on the mobile Internet in developed and developing nations–from Asia to Africa to Europe to the U.S.
The line blurred between voice and data because they were the same, delivered on new and innovative mobile gadgets. Wireless changed quickly, overnight, every day, each second.
As years passed, only the elderly and those who searched the mobile Web remembered personal computers and the ancient Internet when people were tethered to desks.
The day the mobile internet destroyed the Web was history, a myth, a technology that someone, somewhere had once used.
Today, there was only global connectivity and mobility.
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