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Revolutions: Ideas That Changed The World: The Smartphone

Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)

Documentary, Historical | UK

Director: Ben Harding, Christopher Riley

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SEASON: 1

EPISODE: 4 - The Smartphone

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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.

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Producer: Iain Riddick, Ben Bowie

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