I feel like the 'idea' of the iPhone was in the global zeitgeist for a long while before it was actually made. As I child, I can remember watching a program ca

I feel like the 'idea' of the iPhone was in the global zeitgeist for a long while before it was actually made. As I child, I can remember watching a program called "Beyond 2000". In one particular segment, it showed a newspaper being replaced with a digital screen that you could hold in your hand. That idea -- a screen that you could carry around with you -- seemed to be something we were always working towards.