Never-before told stories of a generation of pioneers who brought the mobile phone revolution to the majority of the world's population.
Today's mobile phone is not just a phone, but a powerful portable computer integrated into a global communications network, available to almost everyone, everywhere. Achieving this widespread technological diffusion required scientific innovations and visionary innovations. structuring the standards and adaptability of startups; The resources of the world's largest corporate research laboratories, and the perseverance of a generation of entrepreneurs.Philipp Auerswald tells the epic story of how the mobile phone went from an inaccessible urban luxury to a global necessity. The book tells the never-before-told stories of the tenacious innovators who brought the mobile revolution to the whole world. Their combined work has had a far greater impact on the lives of most of the Earth's population than the activities of the Silicon Valley giants whose names are often mentioned in the books that fill the shelves of airport bookstores. In the stories of these market leaders, we see replicable modelsTo bring pioneering technologies to marginalized groups, through a combination of perseverance, empathy, and creative vision. The Phone is a Cow* will engage readers with its connections between history, economics, technology, sociology, ethics, and everyday life experience, and will provide a deeper understanding of the most important long-term trends.
