Can mobile tech actually stimulate altruism by developing new ways for us to help each other?

I’ve outsourced my memory. I haven’t had the need or inclination to remember a phone number, aside from my own, since the discovery of speed dial on my first Nokia 3000. In the 90s I would never cycle around London without a trusty printed map and would frequently haul my 35mm SLR and Mini-VHS cameras on holidays to capture sunsets and memories.

Now, my smartphone contains everything I need: contacts, messaging, photos – even apps to make 70s retro snaps and low-fi 80s VHS videos. Meanwhile copper telecoms thread, the raw material of our connected life, is being transformed into gallery exhibits by Alice Anderson.

Advances in mobile technology are creating an environment for the sharing economy to thrive.

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