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September 2, 2011

Strange But True!

Q. Is your smart phone smarter than a fifth grader?

A. It took half a century to shrink the mainframe from the size of a living room to that of a suitcase, then another decade to make it smaller than a wallet, says Joshua Romero in IEEE Spectrum magazine. “Today's smart phones are a marvel of engineering,” assimilating functionality from music players, remote controls, gaming consoles, even printed maps and news publications. So those fifth graders have met their match, right along with the rest of us.


 
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