Why mobile matters - An incomplete mobile history

This was an eventful week in mobile tech. I spent Wednesday and Thursday watching as much of Google's IO 2014 conference, hoping to catch a glimpse of where the future of mobile may be headed. I even live tweeted the keynote. Follow @cyber_jurist It was pretty interesting to see how one of the mobile giants is attempting, as so many of them have before, to capture our attention on pretty much every screen they can. The Google team put on a good presentation, showing how they plan to evolve Android as a platform as well as Google services to be useful, present and automatic almost everywhere we go in our everyday life. That is a crazy concept. Then I got to thinking of how far the technology has evolved before my eyes (and in my pockets and bags).

Family members present: PS Vita, PSP Slim, Gameboy Color, HP Windows Mobile PDA, Asus EEEpad Transformer, Nexus 7 2012, Sony-Ericsson Smartwatch, Metawatch, Nokia 8310, HTC Windows Mobile slider, Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1, Nexus One, HTC Evo 3d, Nexus 4, Nexus 5

I also happen to be unpacking from a recent move, and had to put away many of my older gadgets. So, I decided to do a family picture. These are the surviving members of the group, as many of their siblings have since been given away. (The worst damaged one is my current phone, the nexus 5 in the bottom right. Gravity, you are a harsh mistress!) I've kept the rest, mostly as a reminder of how far the tech has evolved.

It's pretty staggering.

Hello world!

Howdy!

My name is Delano, and let me start by thanking you for surfing on by.

Welcome to Techno-Law-gy, a blog I created to discuss some of my musings on where technology and the law intersect. Here you will find an assortment of posts and links to other interesting articles that deal with how technology is changing the legal landscape, particularly in my home country of Canada.

I wholeheartedly believe that here in Canada and all over the world, that technology is evolving at such an alarming pace that it is changing the way we view and interact with the world. The law, however, is changing much more slowly and struggling to keep up with technology's pace. That's where I come in, attempting to make sense of it all and add a bit of context to the uninitiated.

My goal here is to think out loud, and provide a bit of opinion and clarification of issues that may not even seem related but may soon affect our day to day lives all over the world. We are living in an increasingly small world, that is growing more and more connected so that issues that once only affected a few may soon be unavoidable for the masses. I'll elaborate more on that in subsequent posts.

For now, thanks for dropping by, and stay tuned. If there's one thing I can guarantee, it's that things will get more interesting as time goes on.

Cheers

Del