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Think back…way back…to when mobile phones first started getting a foothold in everyday life – I’m talking mid-to-late 1980s here. They generally attracted derision from people, with insults such as yuppie issued with careless abandon.

Back then, you could probably take your mobile phone out in any situation and be scoffed at. But a little more than a decade on from those dark days, and it was likely you’d be the subject of scorn for not having a mobile phone.