The year was kicked off, actually on january ninth at the masconi center in san francisco. That iphone is actually a hand held computer, more compute power in it than the apollo space mission. And they tell me it doubles as a phone and a camera. The most important sofware you've never heard of, a called v m ware went public. A company called facebook broke out of high schools and universities and went global. In two thousand seven, i b m launched the world's first cognitive computer.
Earlier this month we were joined by Thomas Friedman as he brought his wisdom and insight to the world’s current predicaments: How should the West respond to an emboldened China? How do we rebuild the global economy so that it creates prosperity for everyone, not just the few? And how, above all, should we handle the tectonic shifts – technological, demographic and political – that are reshaping our world today?
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