If smartphones disappeared, how could they be replaced?

We're all a little futurists: after a few drinks, it is not uncommon for everyone to go to his little prediction. But we are not all of Asimov in power and the future can be surprising. Can we live without smartphone?

The answer is clear: yes, we can. The object, viewed dozens of times a day, almost mechanically, is primarily a tool man is often spent his tools as and when the times grew. Today, who can use a forge? How many know how to ride a horse or even effectively use a compass? Technologies go, mastering new gear is the only real issue in the technical race. But then, consider the simple challenge: what should be relearning if smartphones were all shut down?
A user of the site Reddit was asked, after breaking his smartphone and the result could hardly take a photograph:

This kind of experience can highlight how smartphones are sophisticated tools that take two principles: the digitization and miniaturization. Thus Atlas and several pounds does he now in a plastic rectangle. The paper updates a finger pressure. The games? A scrabble is bigger than a few MB on an SD card, and certainly less fun.
And if we move away objects from the past itself, we understand how modern technologies concentrate is condensed in the device: phone, MP3 player, USB, camera, camera key, radio, GPS .. . Hard to imagine that there is approximately 5 years, all these things were to be gathered in a backpack. Difficult to think of cumulative cost of equipment and subscriptions. Mobile devices, between 100 and 700 euros, would they finally an economy over time? Maybe yes.