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Rise in Mobile Content Expected to Jump by Rob Newbold

December 11th, 2006 by rob

Wireless, but always connected.

When we chose this tagline, we saw it as a way to describe a generation whose use of technology was integral to their friendships, lifestyles, and personalities. Now it seems its also going to be a bigger part of their buying trends.

Mobile content is growing exponentially according to this post from MIT’s Convergence Culture Consortium. It sites a Juniper Research report which indicates movies, sports information, and yes, even porn, will be available in greater abundance (and presumably at a greater cost) in the next five years.

Connection with e-mail, entertainment outlets, the web, and music will continue to be the focus of gadgets as the market for personalization (through ringtone downloads, etc.) expands. Is this just a natural outgrowth of the increasing portability of our lives? Or, is having access to more sophisticated mobile content a way to avoid having real human interaction with the people with whom we ride the bus, the subway or pass in the hallways? Are we downloading information to avoid conversation?