Despite always waking up in a rather groggy wake, I'm always capable of automatically find myself at my computer to check my mail and Twitter. The first tweet I saw today wasn't the nicest and most settling one. The death of Steve Jobs.
Yes, as we all know, Steve Jobs (computer entrepreneur, co-founder of Apple Inc. and FT's Person of the Year 2010) died after his long battle struggling with pancreatic cancer last night. My instant reaction? Shock. We all know cancer has taken away many people we love and adore, but my reaction was similarly that of a stomach punch. It was almost the same feeling I had felt when Michael Jackson had passed away too.
Although Jackson and Jobs don't exactly come from the same branch of industry, there was something similar in both of them: they were incredibly influential and they pushed the boundaries.
I feel as if Steve Jobs was an auteur of technology or the auteur of technology. Apple was built in his own image, and it successfully carried through in all his products. Funnily enough, I was just researching the Auteur Theory for my music video project for school, and I know for sure that Steve Jobs would definitely be placed in the auteur category.
I'm glad that he passed away peacefully, almost as calm as the man himself. It would be awful to know that someone had died in an inconsiderate amount of pain like my own grandfather's death. Still, 56 is young in my books, and it's an awful shame.
RIP Steve Jobs, may your legacy continue.
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." - Steve Jobs
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