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What matters in tech according to Benedict Evans

The Robot Brains Podcast

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Is Technology Part of the Course Work at a Time?

Technology was actually a pretty small industry until quite recently, and wasn't really an important part of most people's lives. When nextgate launched in 19 94, there were maybe 75 to a hundred million pieces on urt. Now there's five billion, four and a half five billion people have a smart phone. And so technology was always more soft wher r computing, or whatever you want to call it. Was always sort of interesting and exciting, but it wasn't actually important part ofMost people's lives,. whereas really, even only in the last ten years, it's become, you might say, a systemic part of society. It becomes something that politicians talk about as part of

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