In 1988, the tech movement was in its infancy as we discovered the joys of desktop computers and declared the typewriter dead.

Ten years later, the internet and wireless technology began to integrate into our daily lives, and the earliest brick-size cell phones were declared obsolete, giving way to lighter, more portable phones. A brave new world was emerging. But if you asked anyone outside Silicon Valley to take a bet that one day every person would have a powerful, portable computer device in their hands with real-time connectivity, they would have told you this was the stuff of science fiction.

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