The BBC today has a nice report on the future of mobile phones.
You can watch the video report, or read a summary of it on a BBC blog.
Here is an extract,
"What fascinates me is the unplanned changes in human behaviour that have been happening, basically in the last five years, as mobiles have become cheaper, smarter and more pervasive. At Manchester City FC on Saturday, where I saw the launch of the first Near Field Communications trial, using mobiles as season tickets (I kid you not) the really interesting thing was how pervasive mobiles were in the crowd and its behaviour: they seem to have become the primary bonding device between lads and dads. Basically at a footyt match now everybody is texting, taking pictures and the natural extension is to use the moby as a form of payment and ID."