Don’t Forget Phonographs
Wednesday 25 June 2014 • 11:57 AM
Chief Justice John Roberts, in the Riley v California decision
The term “cell phone” is itself misleading shorthand; many of these devices are in fact minicomputers that also happen to have the capacity to be used as a telephone. They could just as easily be called cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, diaries, albums, televisions, maps, or newspapers.
Well, it’s decided. I’m going to start calling my iPhone a rolodex.