So, Steve Jobs has passed on.
I realize the inherent irony of honoring the “Think Different” guy with yet another Obama/Hope-style poster on the internet, but let’s agree that it’s not so much an exercise in creativity as it is an attempt to sum up a person.
The Hope poster is iconic. It represents a collective emotion. A feeling that if we choose, we can change the world. We can make it a better place.
Steve was kinda like that. The news last night was filled with endless prattle about how Mr. Jobs was this generations Thomas Edison (he wasn’t) or that he was the greatest salesman (maybe). I don’t know if any of them really nailed it though. He didn’t create the Apple (Woz did), but he did make the computer personal. He didn’t deliver the first commercial mp3 player (Creative did, I believe), but he put on in people’s pockets.
He had a view of the world, and come Hell or high water, he was going to bring that view to life. He was the great facilitator. He was the motive force.
He was a man of vision.
You may like him. You may hate him. But you’ve felt his effect (both for good and ill) on the world around us.
He was a game changer.
He will be missed.
A really nice, honest tribute. No sticking Mr. Jobs up on a pedestal, which I find very refreshing.
Yeah, some of the claims one was hearing on the news were… interesting. I think building it up for the sake of the story actually diminishes the tribute. He was exceptional enough as he was. Flaws and all, leave it at that.
Oh no, he was definitely this generation’s Edison… he had the same business model, hire a bunch of people that had some vague clue as to what they were doing, milk them for ideas, and then claim all the credit…
Totally Edison.
I get it, you’re one of those Tesla fanatics aren’t you? 😉
Actually, it’s amazing the amount of dirty tricks and dirty dealing that came out of the Edison labs, but there was greatness too.
Any electrical innovator portrayed by David Bowie is impossibly cool by default. I’m just sayin’.
I can not disagree with that sentiment (and I’m a closet Tesla-phile, myself).
You best not be talkin’ trash about my bro Tesla or I’ll be goin’ all alternating current on you, son.