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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead in 1957 and! following a troubled adolescence! went on to study English Literature at Queen's College! Cambridge. As well as being the bestselling author of four novels! The Stars' Tennis Balls ! Making History ! The Hippopotamus ! and The Liar ! and two volumes of his autobiography! Fry played Peter in Peter's Friends ! Wilde in the film Wilde ! Jeeves in the television series Jeeves & Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret! this) Laurie in the television series Fry & Laurie . More recently! he presented Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive ! his groundbreaking documentary on bipolar disorder! to huge critical acclaim. Before it was announced that Fry would retire as moderator! his legions of fans tuned in to watch him host the popular quiz show QI each week. Zusammenfassung Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone! from hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to carry the battery! to the smartphones available today. There are more mobile phones in the world than there are people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys who made it all possible and hears how the technology succeeded in ways that the geeks had not necessarily intended. For example! the engineers who designed the early texting facilities didn't imagine that anyone might want to reply. (Just in case! they added a short list of possible pre-set answers: yes! no and maybe). They also thought taxifones and fax machines for your car would be winners. In the early nineties! Nokia! then famous for toilet paper and rubber boots! was on the brink of collapse; until the new CEO made a bold decision to focus solely on mobile phones Thanks to Margaret Thatcher opening up the airwaves! Britain became a world leader in mobile phone technology. And today! 85% of the silicon chips inside all mobiles are designed by just one Cambridge-based company. Series produced by Anna Buckley. ...
