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Revolutions: Ideas That Changed The World: The Smartphone

Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)

Documentary, Historical | UK

History 2 | Wednesday, 11 October 2023 | 15:00

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Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:00

Thursday, 28 September 2023 18:00

Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:00

Thursday, 15 December 2022 13:00

SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 4 - The Smartphone

SYNOPSIS

Few inventions have revolutionised our everyday existence like the smartphone. It put the world's knowledge in our hands, democratised news-gathering and through social media, connected billions of people in a way that wasn't possible before.

Producer: Iain Riddick, Ben Bowie

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