Introduction

Sometimes, when I’m reading about an event that happened in the 2000s or reminiscing with friends about the past, one topic always stands out as something to be marveled at - the pace of technology. 12 years back, the first iPhone had just been released. It did not have an app store. Literally nobody had a ‘smart’phone. Today, its presence is unavoidable in urban settings. I inevitably trip over how much the landscape of personal tech has changed since then. The release of the first iPhone is an arbitrary personal landmark and there might be other breakthroughs better suited to spearhead the comparison, but the point is, urban living has changed drastically.