Things haven't always been as they are now, and things won't always be the same in the future.  Difficult as it may be to believe, there was a time when the mobile phone did not exist. The mobiles we have now would have seen pretty amazing a few years ago, and in a few year's time the same mobiles will probably feel really out of date.

Your job is to think about how you could develop what we currently call the mobile phone. What might a mobile phone look like in five year's time?

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This fantastic BBC 4 documentary is based on the great idea of taking a family back to the seventies and slowly giving them back the technology they had got used to.  Suddenly they had no mobile phones, no PSPs, no internet ... This program features the arrival of early mobile phones - how things have changed!

This documentary follows the poet Simon Armitage through his examination of upgrade culture. He visits Korea to see how technology companies are working on the future of the devices we use.