{"id":838,"date":"2011-10-06T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2011-10-06T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:43:07","slug":"a-wonderful-life-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/a-wonderful-life-steve-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wonderful Life &#8212; Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the epic, powerful 1946 movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It%27s_a_Wonderful_Life\">It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life<\/a>, we follow a small-town credit union manager as he learns what the world would have turned into if he had never been born.<\/p>\n<p>What if Steve Jobs had never been born? It&#8217;s a scary thought.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There wouldn&#8217;t be iPads or any usable tablets. Their impact is only beginning, but they are already transforming areas as diverse as education, airplane travel and retail.<\/li>\n<li>Phones would have remained feature phones: ugly, clunky, lots of operator crapware. Nokia might still be on top instead of fighting for survival.<\/li>\n<li>But even much earlier: without the Apple ][, the PC revolution would have started later. IBM likely would have played an even larger role, Microsoft would have had a harder time eclipsing them, and we might well still look at DOS-style user interfaces on our 30in monitors<\/li>\n<li>There would be no iPods. Perhaps flash-based Walkmen, but none of the ease of digital media we now take for granted: any track, any podcast, just a few taps away. DRM would play a much larger role than it does today.<\/li>\n<li>Desktop publishing likely would have remained far less accessible to you and me.<\/li>\n<li>No millions of kids delighted by Woody and Buzz Lightyear in A Toy Story.<\/li>\n<li>Tim Berners-Lee might not have created the web without his NeXT. We&#8217;d have something instead, but it likely would not be REST-ful but walled-garden-ful, and far less conducive to innovation.<\/li>\n<li>Throughout the 90&#8217;s and 00&#8217;s, Steve was the only major leader who still embodied the &#8220;change the world with technology&#8221; spirit of the 60&#8217;s and early 70&#8217;s. There used to be, but most of them turned into dull commercialists instead addressing the market instead of changing the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a drab, painful, uninspiring world it would have been. Thank god it hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>We must carry on. Do better. Be great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the epic, powerful 1946 movie, It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life, we follow a small-town credit union manager as he learns what the world would have turned into if he had never been born. What if Steve Jobs had never been born? It&#8217;s a scary thought. There wouldn&#8217;t be iPads or any usable tablets. Their impact&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","category-personal","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}