Richard Williamson, iPhone inventor, creator of Safari, computer engineer

A computer. A device that connects to the internet wirelessly. A screen that reacts to touch with immediacy. A device that listens, and responds. A device that fits in your pocket and can be with you always... but, these statements of fact belie what is truly important about the iPhone. iPhone is nothing less than a bold evolutionary leap for mankind. Thanks to modern medicine, biological evolution for humans has been circumvented. We've beaten nature at her own game. That doesn't mean our species is standing still. We're accumulating knowledge and making discoveries at an ever faster pace. No one man, or woman, can now know all there is to know in any discipline. Advancement requires tools that augment our intelligence, tools that enable access to information at the tap of a finger, or a spoken request. As a species we are stronger when we work together. Collaboration, too, is necessary for advancement, and of course, fundamental to widening social interactions. Tools are required to facilitate interaction, to shrink the world and bind people together, far and wide. iPhone is such a tool, and more.