It’s always hard to predict how a generational shift in technology will impact the wider world, especially when you are in the trenches building that new technology. It happened with the mainframe computer, mini-computer, and the PC. These were all technologies that fundamentally changed how industries functioned and culture evolved (especially the PC plus internet), and in ways that were hard to predict. With mobile and the smartphone, CFI ’s Benedict Evans argues, the impact will be even greater. CFI Board Partner Steven Sinofsky joins Evans in a conversation examining the massive scale and monstrous leverage of mobile devices and the software running on them and how — unpredictably as always — this technological shift is changing the world. As Sinofsky puts it, “Mobile is everything.”
Benedict Evans
Steven Sinofsky is a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz.
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