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Terence Corcoran: Anniversary of the iPhone on the road to AI

Many thought the iPhone would be a disaster. Instead, it transformed a world on its way to artificial intelligence

We are living through a period of anti-tech radicalism driven by a combination of populist alarm about the destructive potential of AI and the ideological belief that the world is slipping into some kind of tyranny under the control of oligarchs who are out to seize economic activity in their own egotistical interests.

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There are many arguments against these theories of runaway corporatist dictatorship and technological destruction, but let’s take a breather from the headlines and review the arrival of a classic tech revolution that continues to positively transform human existence.

Today we are three months away from marking the anniversary of the day — Jan. 9, 2007 — when Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced what he described as a “revolutionary and magic product” that was five years ahead of its time. “We are all born with the ultimate pointing device — our fingers — and iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the........

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