What comes after smartphones? — Benedict Evans

With the rise of personal computing and networks from the 1970s onwards, entrepreneurship took a new direction. The goal was not to best the Soviet Union at any cost, but to serve the general public, to improve people’s daily lives, to change the consumer’s world for the better. Entrepreneurs have always been key figures in the history of the indus

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Almost every foundational technology ever invented, from pickaxes to plows, pottery to photography, phones to planes, and everything in between, follows a single, seemingly immutable law: it gets cheaper and easier to use, and ultimately it proliferates, far and wide. This proliferation of technology in waves is the story of Homo technologicus—of t

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