Jobs' vacancy - Apple's genius dies at 56
About a year ago, I found myself at table with an Israeli affairs pundit. These are disquieting folk at the best of times-they have the uncanny ability of upending any and all assumptions you may have carried until the moment you sit down with them... As the pundit continued her terrifying, edifying monologue, I was brought to mind of Steven Jobs.
The late guru of Apple Inc., a visionary by any definition of the term, was also not interested in "real". He was concerned with the future on his own terms, defined by innovations that he created, through a vessel that exemplified his understanding of the world, or at least how it should be.
He succumbed to complications of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56, while the company he was instrumental in creating reigns as one of the most valuable in the world. Such is the inadvertent role of irony in the postmodern.
Read the full tribute at www.dailymaverick.co.za.
Iconic 1997 Apple ad "Here's to the crazy ones" - the first Think Different ad, created by TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles. The first one is narrated by Richard Dreyfuss; the second one, narrated by Steve Jobs, was never aired.
See also:
- Bizcommunity: Steve Jobs
- Google News Search: Steve Jobs
- Twitter Search: "Steve Jobs" OR RIPstevejobs OR stevejobs
Updated at 10.04am on 7 October 2011.