How does mobile technology impact a society?
The mobile telephone has become a fundamental pillar of modern-day individualism, a manifestation of individual freedom in the 21st Century. Mobile telephones reinforce a system of society that is open and communicative, and act as an antidote to cloistered, closed societies. Mobile phones create a state of permanent communication; people are in constant contact. In fact, not only do mobile phones establish contact, they enrich the quality of that contact by offering a variety of services and effects which render interpersonal communication more broad and versatile. Mobile phones ameliorate image through voice and create a link to the Internet and electronic mail. The enrichment and reinforcement of interpersonal communication establish, step by step, a new social structure, one that is no longer founded on a pyramidal form of relationships and decisions but on an arrangement of networks. A number of sociologists specializing in social organization have suggested that the mobile telephone-Internet link is creating a new society built around networks, and not based on pyramidal or vertical structures. Mobile telephones are thus playing a key role in the passage from a ‘vertical society’ to a ‘horizontal society.’ Specialists also note that the mobile phone ensures a link between the private and professional spheres. From the workplace or office, people can look after their families, just as they can oversee professional matters from home, or while away on a trip. It has also become evident that mobile phones allow their owners to better control their private and family lives. When you are more informed about the whereabouts and relations of the people who depend on you, your relationship with them becomes more relaxed and transparent.
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