The Smartphone Evolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone#Origin_of_the_term ,
http://vr-zone.com/articles/the-smartphone-is-20-years-old-today/18028.html ,
http://www.cnet.com/smartphones

Smartphones and social networks have become quite intertwined over the years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service#Emerging_trends

The_Social_Network movie depicts such things starting to go big time in 2003 and it hasn't slowed down ever since.
http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com , http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016, 

http://mashable.com/2010/09/28/the-social-network-review , http://www.nullco.com/TSN , 

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/thesocialnetwork , 

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network , 

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/09/30/social-network-review.html

http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2010/10/face-behind-social-network.html ,
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2012/10/lauren-weinstein.html ,
http://www.ecouterre.com/robocop-like-glasses-will-scan-identify-400-faces-per-second-at-world-cup

Information technology is so ubiquitous by popular demand & manipulation.
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2012/11/ar-data-glasses-and-iglasses.html  

Of course smartphone tech can be built into robotics. Eventually, a much smaller version could be put into some people, but that has some unsettling implications.