Technology (and Media) After Steve
One of the lasting gifts of technology in general and Steve Jobs and Apple in particular is not the technology itself but what that technology allows us to do. I don’t just mean what “problems” the technology can solve. Nor do I only mean what tasks that technology allows us to complete – its function in the world. While technology does put the proverbial power in the hands of the people to unsettle and disrupt one mature and profitable mega-industry after another, it does s