Abstract
Despite the work of prophets calling (and texting, and IMing) from the desert, it is fair to say that most of us are surprised by the reach and impact of cell phones and other mobile digital communication devices. Their ubiquity, their integration into social life, the intensity with which they have come to define the millennial generation is truly astonishing. In most research on mobility, attention is focused on the device and in particular, on mobile phones. And deservedly so, for, as Fortunati (2001) makes clear, mobile phones are a ‘‘charasmatic technology’’ (p. 85). The devices we carry with us, though, represent only the most visible layer of an entire technological system that is being transformed by mobility. In this essay, I focus on the changes occurring below the surface; that is, changes in the infrastructure of internet applications. These, I argue, will compel a fundamental change in the conception of mobility itself.
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