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  "id": 18101,
  "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91582940/future-of-communication-has-nothing-to-do-with-mobile-phones-whats-next?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss",
  "title": "The future of communication has nothing to do with phones. This is what’s coming next",
  "summary": "The mobile industry has spent the better part of four decades with one objective: putting a connected device in every human hand. That mission is nearly complete. Mobile services now reach about 5.8 billion consumers, roughly 70% of the people alive. In wealthy markets, almost anyone who wants to be reachable already is, according to the GSMA’s Mobile Economy 2026 report . The smartphone finished the job. Once almost everyone owned one, reaching another person stopped being the problem the indus",
  "authors": "Inc.",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-10T19:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "source_slug": "x-fast-company-tech",
  "source_name": "Fast Company Tech",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.fastcompany.com/technology",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18101",
  "original_url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91582940/future-of-communication-has-nothing-to-do-with-mobile-phones-whats-next?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}