Steve Jobs

The book I read to research this post was Steve Jobs: The Einstein Of The 21st Century by Albert Redfield which is a fairly good that I read at kindle unlimited. This book is only around 10 pages and I find it hard to believe the author couldn’t find more to write on this subject. Steve Jobs of course died recently and the author argues in his lifetime had the kind of impact on our lives in the 21st Century that can only be matched by Einstein in the 20th Century. He shaped how we define things like computers and telephones. These devices nowadays often come with a touch screen which we have to thank him for. Like Einstein they both came from a fairly poor background and were obsessive about learning subjects that interested them. Apple now is the largest company in the world and almost anyone can learn to write apps for their devices. Many people are getting very rich from selling apps. Many of these apps also are free or at least have a similar but free version. Steve famously started building his early computers in a garage and never completed higher education. I think like Bill Gates he realized there was an opportunity there and then and if either went to university they would miss out. Steve stayed abreast of the latest technology. Apparently he read so much it took up too much of his time so he didn’t have time to do other things. It does look like tablets are the computers of the near future and smartphones will become the mobile phones of the near future with their vastly expanded capabilities. I did enjoy this book but it could have done with being longer. I’d suggest reading it on kindle unlimited rather than buying. Really it ought to be free.