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<H2 CLASS="title chm-event-hide" TITLE="Close for Less Details">CHM Live | Putting A New World In Your Hands: The Impact Of The iPhone on Our Economy & Society</H2>
<H3 CLASS="subtitle">Veteran technology writers Steven Levy & John Markoff in conversation with 5 thought leaders</H3>
<P>In the past decade iPhone & the ensuing smartphone revolution have altered our world more thoroughly than any previous computer generation. They have reached more than half the worlds population & have changed the way we communicate, travel, work, entertain ourselves & even sleep. To close the iPhone 360 event series, on October 18th veteran technology writers Steven Levy & John Markoff will host two panels on the impact of the iPhone.<BR> <BR> The smartphone revolution has brought new economic freedoms gig economy workers can now easily sell their labor to the Ubers & the Lyfts of the world without constraint. It has catalyzed a trillion dollar app economy with more than 3 billion users. At the same time, the iPhone has made it possible for a new class of monopolists such as Facebook & Google to reach the entire worlds population at virtually no cost. Levy will lead a conversation with Benedict Evans, author on how mobile is eating the world & Partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, & Bertrand Schmitt, Co-Founder & CEO of App Annie, about how the iPhone has remade the business world.<BR> <BR> Smartphones have truly leveled the education playing field on a global scale a young schoolchild in the most remote village of Africa can have equal access to knowledge to that of a freshman at Stanford or Harvard. Simultaneously they have enabled a global panopticon on a scale that George Orwell never dreamed of. The iPhone can literally monitor every step you take. Markoff will moderate a discussion with Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jean-Louis Gasse, a former Apple executive & venture capitalist, & Judy Wajcman, a sociologist at the London School of Economics, focused on the way the iPhone has transformed our culture.</P>
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