I was sitting in a suburban Cincinnati Starbucks when I realized everything was going to change.
It was early 2008, and a friend was showing me his new phone. He loaded a website and passed his iPhone across the table, and I scrolled down the page. It was slow and clunky, but it was real. “There it is,” he said. “The internet on my phone.”
It was like seeing the moment that something fragile falls out of your hands. You know it’s going to be everywhere, but for a second, it…