“He dreamed of a better world.”
There's no real trick in that. I don't think there is anyone among us who hasn't dreamed of a better world; who hasn't wanted to change things.
But Steve Jobs made it happen.
Love him or hate him or Apple or the products it makes, Steve Jobs changed the world we live in. He had a passion that he pursued with single-minded intensity for his entire adult life.
And the world we live in is a better one for it.
I type these words on a computer made by Apple that is the descendant of the original Mac and the Apple II: the first computer to really be useful to ordinary people. You read these words on the “World Wide Web”: a creation of the technology that was first invented on a computer built by NeXT Computers which Steve Jobs built when he was forced to begin again after being pushed out of Apple.
There are only a few in each generation who as individuals shape the world we live in; fewer still who shape it for the better.
Goodbye, Steve.
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