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Invention and happenstance
The Secret Genius of Modern Life BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, streaming now
We are surrounded by technology that, because it has become so familiar, we take for granted. Yet much of this technology would, just a few years ago, have been the stuff of science fiction. Steve Jobs, remember, didn't announce the launch of the first iPhone until January 2007, yet by 2018 Apple had sold two billion phones.
Hannah Fry, whose day job is as professor in the mathematics of cities at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, certainly doesn't take technology for granted. Just the reverse, she wants to know how the increasingly digitally driven world we move through came to be.
“The technology that surrounds us undeniably shapes our lives, but how much do we really know
