Horowitz: Smartphones provide better libraries than 1990s Ivy League universities
Ben Horowitz · Don't Follow Your Passion · Jul 15, 2017 · at 15:41
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Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz compares present-day mobile access to information with Ivy League university research resources in the 1990s.
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“Everybody who has a smartphone, which is pretty soon going to be everybody in the world, has the Library of Congress in their pocket. So that means a girl growing up in Bangladesh now has a better library than a student at Columbia or Harvard had 20 years ago.”
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