There's overlap. There's the technological smartphone, and the 'societal' smartphone. When talking smartphones, you're not just talking the literal device (which I agree is a freaking marvel), you're talking all that that entails. You're talking universal access to the internet, you're talking constant access to the internet. And you're talking normalization of that constant access. That might be the biggest issue, just moving societal norms in the direction of digital interaction instead of personal interaction. "Smartphone" is almost just shorthand for 'a society where everyone is plugged in every day, and that's the norm.' There's massive implications to the proliferation of an otherwise neutral technology like a smartphone.
There's overlap. There's the technological smartphone, and the 'societal' smartphone. When talking smartphones, you're not just talking the literal device (which I agree is a freaking marvel), you're talking all that that entails. You're talking universal access to the internet, you're talking constant access to the internet. And you're talking normalization of that constant access. That might be the biggest issue, just moving societal norms in the direction of digital interaction instead of personal interaction. "Smartphone" is almost just shorthand for 'a society where everyone is plugged in every day, and that's the norm.' There's massive implications to the proliferation of an otherwise neutral technology like a smartphone.