It could be argued that the smartphone has had the largest single impact on human society in the last 50 years. It has brought about more change in our daily lives than other technology such as the internet, personal computers, global telecommunications, the phonograph and the photograph. In part, because the smartphone is a nexus for all these individual inventions. It takes all the power for change’ held within each invention and puts them into a single point of use. More powerfully, it allows them to be used simultaneously; to make them far greater than the sum of their parts. What is even more astonishing is that this ‘nexus’ is barely 10 years old. Read this paper to learn more.