The Anthropology of Mobile Phones

Most of us always curry mobile phones, because they enable us to survive and give us convenience; transcend space and time.
The idea of mobile phone have been applied in other situations.
For example, there are systems that people can send money by using prepaid phone cards in rural villages.
If one person calls with particular prepaid cards, then the other person who get the call can be sent money in cash and the owner get ten or twenty present profit.
It means that mobile phones that everyone have act as ATM.
Mobile phones also have made bottom-up innovations.
In China and India, there are many small shops where people who aren't educated much repair used mobile phones without specific tools in streets.
They build or design mobile phones depending on only their knowledge that be shared.

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