Young Steve selling. Always selling.
This picture shows a young, enthusiastic Steve Jobs as I remember him when he first captured my imagination at 15 and still in high school. I remember how the idea of a computer and the potential it had to make our lives better became universally accepted as an important development. Meanwhile, the monochrome, tennis style game “Pong” was pretty much as high-tech as it got in home computer gaming and Ms. Pac-Man drew us to the arcades for fun in four colors. But, in the back of our minds, somehow we knew that Steve Jobs was on to something more. Something bigger than we knew how to describe. When I reached college, the computer lab had 100 Apple Macintosh II computers available to students and we were beginning to see small glimpses of the greatness that would be Apple’s future. As we know, Steve was let go from Apple only to return later to redeem himself and the company he co-founded that would one day, for just one day, become the most valuable company in the world.
At Disney World’s Epcot Center, at the Spaceship Earth exhibit, one travels through Earth’s history and important moments. I guess they thought Steve Jobs was pretty important, because one of the prominent displays there is of what appears to be a young Jobs tinkering on some circuitry in a garage somewhere.
He’s been described as a great visionary, an Edison, a Ford, an Einstein, a Disney. I don’t think he’s very much like any of them. He’s Steve Jobs, the man who helped humanity. He gave us the tools to better ourselves and our lives, our careers and our home life. He stands among this group of great men as a peer, a colleague, an incomparable.
Thanks Steve for making life a bit nicer and bit more beautiful.
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