Steve Jobs

As compared to Babbage’s article on creating the first working computer, Steve Jobs interview provides a much more enlightening and fluent view on the creation of a machine. While Babbage’s article is full of technical information is does not cater to the audience in the same way that Steve Jobs does in his interview with playboy. Jobs’ creates a vivid image of the power of a personal computer without depicting technicalities. The wavelengths in which Steve Jobs thinks are also quite marvelous. This may be due to the idealistic Steve Jobs describes of him and his peers alike, who went to school in the 60’s. Already, something he sees as fleeting only a mere twenty years later. Something else jobs does, in full, is describe the power of the personal computer. Since Jobs is an excellent salesman at heart, and this shines in his interview. Jobs describes the computer as a machine that “ takes these very, very simple-minded instructions‐-”Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number”‐ but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. That’s a simple explanation, and the point is that people really don’t have to understand how computers work”. This quote, most definitely, sums it up so that layman can understand the power of the machine without being drowned in technical detail that really makes no sense to an outsider. The most important conclusion I was able to draw from the article was that Steve Jobs was truly a visionary on top of an industry that would eventually change the world forever.