Turkmenistan at 35: Part 11 – From Telephone to Smartphone – Carrying the World in Your Pocket

Tamir Shakirov and Liliya Zhirnova Imagine giving a young person today a telephone from 1991. They would recognize it as a telephone. But they would probably wonder what else it was supposed to do. It could make calls. That was more or less the point. The device in their pocket today is something entirely different. […] The post Turkmenistan at 35: Part 11 – From Telephone to Smartphone – Carrying the World in Your Pocket appeared first on News Central Asia (nCa) .