To illustrate the rapid evolution of cell phone technology that is driving the adoption of the consumer marketplace, Evan Neufeld, vice
president-consulting and senior analyst, M:Metrics flashed two then-and-now images to illustrate his point. The first was a picture of Gordon Gecko, the greedy antagonist portrayed by actor Michael
Douglas in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street.†Gecko was holding a then state-of-the-art cell phone (he was a billion dollar corporate raider, after all) that was about the size of a
box of Fig Newtons. That was juxtaposed alongside an image of Steve Jobs holding his nifty iPhone. Aside from being two greedy billionaires, the images made me wonder what people might think about the
design of a cell phone 20 years from now. Either that, or how big a box of Fig Newtons might actually be.