Steve Jobs Changed the World

Recorded history has been around for approximately 7,000 years. Modern man has only been around for a brief time in the grand scheme of things. In our history there has been much bloodshed, disease, famine, and the like. Mankind's progress, for the most part, has been slow. We are resistant to change. We are scared of new things.

But every now and then a person or group of people come along that are head-and-shoulders above the rest of the population. They have an idea or a technology that changes the world. The Industrial Revolution changed the world. The combustible engine changed the world. Flight and space flight changed the world. And computers changed the world.

It was a group of people from Silicon Valley in the 1970s that changed the world. One of those men was Steve Jobs. Steve was actually one of those at the front if not the very tip itself. A genius with a vision, and in America that kind of thing is regarded with a sense of awe. Certainly it has been said about men who have accomplished less. But Steve brought us a digital revolution.

Steve was a co-creator and co-founder of Apple Computers. Along with Steve Wozniak, Jobs started a computer company that may not be the biggest today, but it is the most significant. At one time Apple was even in bed with Microsoft. In the beginning, they were the best thing out there, and companies scrambled to make their own home computers and try to take a bite out of the Apple. Some hung on, like Commodore, quite popular in Europe. Then IBM made the PC and the clones followed. Apple ended up a successful computer company, although certainly not the biggest.

Not that it matters. Enter the iPod! A device to carry around your entire library of music that evolved into a device that connects you to the world many ways. All in the palm of your hand. The iPhone became a device that again sent other companies scrambling to make similar devices and was the first significant smart-phone.

The Digital Revolution that Steve Jobs brought has changed the world. The world has become smaller, faster, more connected. It has changed the way we communicate.

Steve Jobs died on October 5th, 2011. He was 56. A Technological Revolutionary. He changed the world, making it a truly "smarter planet". I am personally very sad and wish his family the very best.