The mobile landscape of 2008 looks completely different than it did just two years ago, and experts predict the next few years will bring innovations that make communication through mobile devices even more pervasive.

B.J. Fogg, who runs the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, has spent the last decade looking at how technology changes attitudes and behaviors. The lab’s studies about text messaging and mobile usage have convinced him mobile technology will become the most persuasive method of reaching people in the years to come and will be tapped by political leaders, religious figures and advertisers.