The digital factotum della città
A precious opportunity was missed when multifunctional mobile devices were named 'smart' instead of 'factotum'.
It seems that phones became 'smart' in 1995, when the term appeared for the first time in relation to AT&T's Phonewriter Communicator. As is the case with language in general, the term helped accommodate the thought that devices can be smart in…
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