iPhone Named Invention of The Year by Time Magazine
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Time Magazine has named the iPhone the ‘Invention Of The Year’. No doubt from here to January, iPhone is going to pick up a slew of awards – but this one should count as a fairly big win, one that Steve might find some wall-space for.
Last year’s winner of this award was YouTube. YouTube and then iPhone. Makes you wonder a little bit … have their been no breakthrough medical or scientific inventions in these last couple of years? Nothing that helps save lives or some amazing bit of nano-technology that merits a place above YouTube and the iPhone?
Great win for iPhone, but a bit of a sad state of affairs if these are really the best inventions of the last two years …
Check out Time’s full article at:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1678581,00.html
My thoughts exactly … how sad is it that a phone and a website are the two recent winners. What about hydrogen powered automobiles, as you said medical device breakthroughs, VIAGRA/Cialis – just kidding – … but there’s got to be something out there that’s new in this world that does something more than feed our gizmo addiction and more worthy of the title