15 Years of the iPhone w/ Brian Merchant
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Ephone and the Gig Economy, Right?
i feel like the ephone plays an important role in extending some of those ideas about work into broader economy, right? Because at this period, at the end of the first decade of the two thousands, you have the emergence of the iphone and the apstore. And there are these few developments within this same period of time with the emergence of cloud that creates this, on one hand, ap economy where you have this idea that everyone needs to kind of be entrapernerial and create their own ap. I just don't think that it's quite as, sort of, as valorized or as mythologized as it once was.
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