Mobile internet is now just theinternet

Smartphones are increasingly becoming the devices on which we access the web at home as well as on the move, meaning more power for Google and Apple

The Christmas holidays are the time of year when different generations of the family gather around the dinner table. So it's a perfect opportunity for a spot of tech anthropology. Here's how to do it.

At some point, insert into the conversation a contemporary topic about which most people have strong opinions but know relatively little. Jeremy Clarkson, say. There will come a moment when someone decides that the only thing to be done to resolve the ensuing factual disputes is to "Google it". Watch what happens next. The younger members of the group will pull out their smartphones and key in the search terms. Most of the older members will do nothing - other than make a mental note to look it up when they're next at their PCs and wait for the smartphone owners to report what they have found.

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