Today we are migrants to a digital land, but it is our children who are growing up as digital natives. The rules of doing business and governing society as it evolves are challenging, with many misguided laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and social fallacies such as the concept of identity. Delivering the keynote address at the Gartner mobile and wireless summit in London, Nick Jones, research vice-president at Gartner, spoke of how difficult it was to predict how new technologies would be used. Today, prepaid mobile credits are emerging as a new form of currency in many countries, and the most popular way to dump a boyfriend among today’s teenagers is by a text message. “It’s a $450 billion industry, and politicians and lawyers are interested,” he said.
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