This New Yorker story details the emergence in Japan of “novels” authored entirely by mobile phone in text messaging sized installments. While heavy on the implications for and debate about what constitutes literature, the article provides an example of the how mobile devices expand people’s concept of how to do things. These novels authored on mobile phones also sell as old-fashioned hardcover and paperback books. We remain near the beginning of innovative uses of and services for mobile devices.
Of broader significance, the mobile phone enables new ways of meeting individual needs and wants and interacting with the world.
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