A Facebook friend is curious why Steve Job’s life has gotten so very much attention, with his untimely death. This was my personal response:
As a lifelong student of history and technology, I’m fascinated by Jobs, because historians yet unborn will be writing about him (and school children will read about him) the way we still study Edison or Ford. Although human advancement is a collaborative enterprise, some individuals have the vision and drive to advance the quality of progress for all of us. The rest of us are drawn to such mojo, wanting to grok (or even glimpse) the mechanism of greatness. It’s a mystery on par with “What is love?”
