Fall of the Machines: Remember Standalone Tech?

The smartphone leapt from cyberpunk fantasy to ubiquity so fast you might be forgiven for forgetting what it was like to not have a map of the world, encyclopedia, tip calculator and mailman in your pocket. To remind you of just how much power you’re carrying around, we’ve got a chart that shows just how much of the wondrous technology of the past few millennia has been condensed into a little plastic-and-metal box: