TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cellan-Jones,Rory
TI  - Always on: hope and fear in the social smartphone era 
SN  - 9781472981196
AV  - HE9713  .C455 2021 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Continuum
KW  - Smartphones
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social media
KW  - Online social networks
KW  - Mobile computing
KW  - local
KW  - Print books
N1  - Includes index; Prologue -- Part I. Revolutionary times. 'We're going to make some history here today' -- The smartphone revolution -- Facepack: the rise of social media -- Raspberry Pi: can Britain build a computer? -- The end of the human race? -- Elon Musk and the triumph of tech -- Part II. Things fall apart.  The woes of the web -- Always on -- Spinners, hacks and Hype -- Crypto craziness -- Part III. Tech in a global health crisis. The pandemic arrives -- The app that could tame COVID -- Fake news, 5G and the virus
N2  - The principal technology correspondent for the BBC recounts the history of the smartphone and discusses its impact on the way this powerful technology ushered in a revolution in the way people live and work, including its dark side
ER  -