"Nobody thinks about the glass on their phone. They think about the app, the screen, the processor. But without Gorilla Glass, every smartphone would shatter in your pocket by Tuesday. Materials are the coordination layer between human intention and physical reality. We do not make the computers — we make the surfaces that make the computers possible."
CEO of Corning who built his career at the company that makes the invisible substrate of the digital age. Gorilla Glass — protecting more than six billion devices — was a product that existed in Corning's lab for decades until Steve Jobs called asking for glass that could survive a pocket. Optical fiber is the physical infrastructure of the global internet. Corning makes neither chips nor software — it makes the coordination surface between human hands and digital systems.