摘要:20 century has observed the rapid development of mobile phone
technology and increase in the number of users. This rapid development
has direct/indirect impact mainly on 3 parameters such as societal,
environmental and economical. This paper is an attempt to show an
anthropological review of mobile phone and its various evolutionary
impacts. This paper limits its discussion on societal impact (in particular)
with brief description on environmental and economical. An analysis was
carried out by cross-impact analysis using the fifteen identified societal
impact variables/indicators. From the analysis it can be said that impact on
variable can cause a detrimental changes on one or several variables.