He Gave Us Jetpacks
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 11:58AM MegatonApps 
In so many ways, the future isn’t what it was meant to be. We are here, on the precipice of 2012, already years removed from the visions of Arthur C. Clarke. We are here, more than 40 years removed from the last time man set foot somewhere other than Earth. We are here, saddled with the debt of the prior century, stifled by the largesse of the past. We are here, facing a world moving more quickly, more discordant and fractured than ever before. We are here, doubting the fundamental integrity of our core societal institutions.
And yet we are here, carrying hundreds of times more computing power in our pockets than was relied upon to navigate from the Earth to the Moon. We are here, able to access essentially the entire planet’s store of data by way of a device we can fit in our pockets. We are here, gazing into the penseives of knowledge we call displays, interacting with them using the very gestures innately developed over millions of years. We are here, able to speak to devices of man’s own artifice as naturally as we would with each other. We are here, able to fulfill mankind’s innate desire to create– anything, everything– more easily than at any other time in history. We are here, living in a world where our most prized possessions and our most valuable stores of knowledge travel with us through the air. And we do all of these things by way of devices that exemplify man’s ability to create order and meaning from nothing more than chaos and base elements; to beat back, however temporarily, the relentless encroachment of entropy upon our universe.
Steve Jobs’s strength was not in technology for technology’s sake. He understood something that so many of Apple’s competitors will never truly comprehend: that faster and bigger don’t matter if a humanistic “better” isn’t the result. His strength was in taking the raw materials of progress and refining them into meaningful achievements: useful, beautiful devices infused with the very best of the human spirit. He made the future real– something that you and I can revel and wonder in, something often better than we could have ever imagined, something so effortless that that same sense of wonder can often fade to the background because things are so simply how they should be. The real magic isn’t that Steve Jobs delivered the very future promised and forgotten by so many others; it’s that he did so in a manner so elegant and well-considered that we forget that, before all this, we didn’t have jetpacks at all. He made the future the present; a gift to us all. And he did it over and over again, for more than 30 years, by way of unquenchable curiosity, an indomitable spirit, and a restless desire to improve the world in which he lived.
Our charge is to bring to life those futures Steve didn’t have time to turn into the present. May we look to his example as a guide, and may we never allow the sense of wonder with which he imbued us all to recede into the darkness.
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