Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com
by Brian Brooker
In many ways, I’m an unlikely person to speak about Steve Jobs. I’m not much of a computer person. I’m not technically minded. But then again, maybe I am the perfect person.
Steve Jobs knew how to create products for people like me. People who want to listen to music or write a script or play a game but who don’t know much about computers or how they work.
Steve Jobs was a master of simplifying. He boiled everything down to its essence. He understood the power of design and it shone through in all of his inventions, including the Apple stores that sold them.
Steve Jobs was a visionary. I don’t use that word lightly. I put him in the same space with Walt Disney. Jobs was prescient. He could see what we wanted before we knew we wanted it. And once he created it, we couldn’t imagine our lives without it.
Steve Jobs was driven. He never stopped creating. He had countless inventions and he kept working right up until his death. It was “the discovery” that drove him; not the riches that followed.
Steve Jobs was brave. He believed there was a better way and he was bold enough to change things. He kicked convention in the balls.
I can’t think of another person on the horizon like him. I’m in awe of what he did and who he was.
