Agreed.

There existed a period of time where handheld communication devices existed and were banned.

Sometime later, someone somewhere made a conscious choice to change policy. It didn’t just happen.

> someone somewhere

Must have been a powerful person.

	▲	obscurette 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They were. I was there in edu conferences, training sessions and other events years ago and could observe all this massive FUD which appeared – "smartphones are the future", "all communication will be in social media in the future", "books will not matter", "privacy will not matter", "if we ban smartphones, we will handicap our children" etc. People didn't know better and there was genuine fear in education. Or actually, it's still very much there.