5767 AM · 2007 CE · world history
The Smartphone and Social Media
The internet moves into the pocket, and conversation, news and commerce change shape.
In 2007 the first iPhone appears, and Facebook and its rivals open to everyone. Within a few years billions carry a permanently connected computer with a camera. Navigation, dating, news, protest and propaganda all change form. With the access come new problems: addiction, polarisation and disinformation.