Editorial
We remember Steve Jobs
His life has left us an example to emulate
The death of Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former chief executive of the US-based Apple Company, a global leader in producing innovative electronic gadgets, is an irredeemable loss to the world. The inventor of iPod, iPhone, and iPad as the most recent of his innovations, he left behind a proud legacy of what the power of creative thinking reinforced by innovativeness can achieve.
Growing up as a rebel youth amid the hippie movement of counter-culture of the 1960s and 70s, he remained a rebel, a non-conformist mystique throughout his life and the products he innovated bore the mark of his character. He was never the stereotype. That is why the corporate world was always wondering about what next techno-cultural shock he would be coming up with.
Strangely, he was neither hardware, nor a software engineer. But his forte lay in his innovation in aesthetic designing and making technology simple, smarter and personal.
He showed us that to bring in a change in the predictable world of conventional thinking what one needs most is a revolutionary spirit.
He was not one brought up amidst affluence. Son of a Silicon Valley machinist and a college drop-out, he started his Apple from a garage in California in 1976. And if not for his indomitable lust for life and visionary beliefs, he could not be what he became with pancreatic cancer constantly sapping his vitality until his last moment.
We pay our highest tribute to this great innovator-mystique whose ideas have influenced the entire world. Though still struggling hard to keep pace with the fast changing world of technology, we in Bangladesh share the feeling of void that he left in his death.
While paying respect to this world leader in creative thinking, we need to go through soul-searching as to how creative thinking is being nurtured in Bangladesh. If for our economic limitations we could not provide the necessary incentive, have we at least been able to give necessary inspiration and respect to our own innovators and creative thinkers?
It is time we started to create a congenial atmosphere for our future Steve Jobs to grow and flourish.
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