Steve Jobs Leaves a Legacy

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Apple's Founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, passed away at age 56 this week.  He is easily one of the greatest innovators of all time next to whom I like to call "The King," of innovators, Walter Elias Disney.  What I find most interesting is that just like an artist who dies and leaves his artwork to the masses, Steve Jobs' legacies have become almost priceless.  His autobiography is said to be the top seller for this month and who knows, maybe his creations will become priceless objects of remembrance, to be put in a museum of technology at some point in the future.  I would find it kind of amusing to see the very first iPod in a display case somewhere fifty years from now and be able to say, "I owned one of those!"

I do not mean to make fun of a serious event here.  Steve Jobs will be revered and his legacy will live on hundreds of years from now.  What most people seem to remember about Jobs is that he was very temperamental, almost like nothing was going right in the world for him.  I can understand the pressures of a society who wants better and better technology and desiring to be the leader in providing that technology must be a very difficult goal to maintain.  But at least Jobs had all the money in the world to find or create the next greatest innovation.  Walt Disney rarely had the funds he needed to produce his ideas, and almost went bankrupt at one point, now that would be something to be temperamental about, as I believe Walt Disney must have been at times in his life too.

Jobs' impact on the world of mass media was great.  He introduced us to the most advanced communication technology to make our lives less complicated, changed the way we listen to music, watch movies, and read books, and opened a whole new world of educational tools with his products and innovations.  There is no denying that like a great artist, like Walt Disney, Steve Jobs will be one of those names that everyone knows and knows something of what he's done for this world.