5767 AM · 2007 CE · world history
The Smartphone and Social Media
The internet moves into the pocket, and conversation, news and commerce change shape.
In 2007 the first iPhone appears, and Facebook and its rivals open to everyone. Within a few years billions carry a permanently connected computer with a camera. Navigation, dating, news, protest and propaganda all change form. With the access come new problems: addiction, polarisation and disinformation.
Sources
Documents of the period
- documents and chronicles of the period — the launch of the first iPhone (2007) and the opening of the social networks to everyone
Scholarship
- general histories of the region — billions connected; the arguments over addiction, polarisation and disinformation
Basis: documents and evidence.