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<\/a><\/p>\nIn his already-famous Stanford speech<\/a>, Jobs insists on the importance of belief. For him, and other daring entrepreneurial types, that belief is in the future.\u00a0 For the masses, though, that belief, by and large, is the belief of others.\u00a0 At Stanford, Jobs insisted on avoiding dogma, “the results of other people’s thinking”.\u00a0 However, that is exactly what Jobs — very intentionally — created.\u00a0 A dogma for the people; something to believe in.\u00a0 The Apple logo has been shown to invoke the reaction from an Apple fan that the crucifix does from a Christian<\/a>.\u00a0 As I surfed the frenzied net last night following Jobs’ death, I came across the image above, and was suddenly reminded of the religious imagery, now complete with its Messiah:\u00a0The One Who Saw Things Differently<\/a>.\u00a0 I say that with certain skepticism, but I see the larger ramifications.\u00a0 As I’ve come to understand technology a little better, and accept it as the central focus of my life, I’ve come to expect a not-too-distant future where a worship of technology is commonplace.\u00a0 Messiah now firmly immortalized, the tenants of religion have been fulfilled.<\/p>\n Personally, I am ever more inspired by Jobs. \u00a0Though he understood and leveraged the fact that most people don’t believe that the dots will connect later, he encouraged us to believe in our gut and intuition. \u00a0His achievements as an inventor and businessman are unquestionable. \u00a0We have lost a luminary, and a world leader, and I too am deeply sad to see him gone so soon.<\/p>\n However, I don’t accept Jobs as the messiah of the digital revolution, and don’t accept his dogma any more than any other dogma.\u00a0 Yes, Steve Jobs did for the computer world what Henry Ford did for the automotive world.\u00a0 But Ford did it without creating a dogma, which is all the more dangerous in the digital space: with a computer, power, and the internet, a motivated person has no limits.\u00a0 It doesn’t take factories, or even a formal education: the digital revolution means affordable tools for anyone to create anything they want.\u00a0 This revolution signifies the first time that each individual person has access to all the information, and all the power: let’s not throw that away by subscribing, as we are so accustomed, to the results of someone else’s thinking.\u00a0 Open-source, Net Neutrality, and the right to modify your own property are the three most important ideas of the digital revolution, and I, for one, stand for freedom — libre and gratis.<\/p>\n
![The One Who Saw Things Differently<\/a>.\u00a0 I say that with certain skepticism, but I see the larger ramifications.\u00a0 As I’ve come to understand technology a little better, and accept it as the central focus of my life, I’ve come to expect a not-too-distant future where a worship of technology is commonplace.\u00a0 Messiah now firmly immortalized, the tenants of religion have been fulfilled.<\/p>\nPersonally, I am ever more inspired by Jobs. \u00a0Though he understood and leveraged the fact that most people don’t believe that the dots will connect later, he encouraged us to believe in our gut and intuition. \u00a0His achievements as an inventor and businessman are unquestionable. \u00a0We have lost a luminary, and a world leader, and I too am deeply sad to see him gone so soon.<\/p>\nHowever, I don’t accept Jobs as the messiah of the digital revolution, and don’t accept his dogma any more than any other dogma.\u00a0 Yes, Steve Jobs did for the computer world what Henry Ford did for the automotive world.\u00a0 But Ford did it without creating a dogma, which is all the more dangerous in the digital space: with a computer, power, and the internet, a motivated person has no limits.\u00a0 It doesn’t take factories, or even a formal education: the digital revolution means affordable tools for anyone to create anything they want.\u00a0 This revolution signifies the first time that each individual person has access to all the information, and all the power: let’s not throw that away by subscribing, as we are so accustomed, to the results of someone else’s thinking.\u00a0 Open-source, Net Neutrality, and the right to modify your own property are the three most important ideas of the digital revolution, and I, for one, stand for freedom — libre and gratis.<\/p>\nCharging for the SDK and publishing access<\/a> is like putting a massive premium on pencils.\u00a0 It’s to the benefit of the serious authors of the world, and moreover the people who make the pencils, but actively prohibits the curious.<\/p>\nSteve would probably say that the process is not so wicked: it’s the wind that blows away the chaff.<\/p>\nSteve would give you the book, but never teach you to write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday, I built my first Windows machine after nearly a decade of Macs, and Steve Jobs died.\u00a0 I can’t seem to keep the idea out that I somehow, on a supersticious mystical-fortune-cookie level, caused this.\u00a0 I feel this certain shame, feeling that I, with my Android phone and Windows computer, have abandoned Jobs — and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F18UqD.jpg\"){kind=link}