AT&T, National Medal of Arts, 1992
Cell phone as a representation of the ubiquity of phone service
"As we end the 20th Century, the digital wireless phone is a powerful
symbol of the
communications revolution that will only pick up momentum in the 21st Century. It's
also a symbolic bridge with America's last hundred years. One of the great American
social accomplishments of this century was the provision of reliable, affordable
telephone service to virtually every household. Today's wireless phones represent
the ubiquity of phone service. As technology rapidly expands the speed of wireless
data connections, these pocket-sized digital phones will very likely replace personal
computers as the favored Internet access device in the 21st Century."
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