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by rexreed 1460 days ago
What no one could forsee is how many different devices and gadgets the smart phone would subsume:

* Camera & Video recorder

* Calculator

* GPS

* Video streaming device (aka "TV")

* Game device

* Email and communication device

* Radio

* and so so so much more

Each one of these devices in the 1960s-1990s (even early 2000s) were multi-billion dollar industries in their own right.