Read something the other day: there are as many years between 1947 and 1980 as there are from 1980 to today.

33 years.

What did life look like in the USA in 1947? A few items come to mind:

• The idea of a TV in every home was not fully marketed yet
• Kids who were born during the Great Depression were in the middle of their teens and/or just entering adulthood
• There was no such thing as rock and roll music
• There were fewer than 10 English Bible translations used across churches
• There were no such thing as interstate highways
• You still called the switchboard operator to connect you to another by phone

By 1980, those points changed incredibly:

• The question wasn’t a TV in every home, but how many TVs were in your home
• If you were hitting your teens in 1980, that would make you a child of the end of the Civil Rights Era; if you were hitting adulthood, there’s a good chance your father was absent for fighting in Vietnam for some part of your childhood/teen years
• Rock and roll entered its down period (would come back by mid-decade), disco just about hit its end, and rap music wasn’t quite here yet
• Bible translations since 1980: ~5 NIV versions, ~7 RSV versions, ~14 KJV versions, ~8 dynamic translations, 2 internet-based versions, ~11 Messaniac versions, ~6 Catholic versions, 3 public domain versions… I think you get the picture (see Wikipedia article for complete breakdown)
• We’ve got a pretty expansive interstate highway system
• People don’t make phone calls like they used to

Consider what we have going for us today and what will happen in another 33 years. That’s a bit longer than a generation (20-25yrs). Does your work in mobile reflect that the world will change? Or, are you using mobile like an island, hoping that folks don’t go any further?