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Steve Jobs: Technology's Impact On The World

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The difference in the world from the past to the present has changed dramatically through technology. Steve Jobs was a technological genius whose vision not only shaped an industry but also our entire world and culture. Steve Jobs made a huge impact on society by bringing the world new aspects of technology. Steve was a technological innovater and an intellectual entrepreneur. Steve introduced many innovations to the world, and accomplished so much in his lifetime. Steve revolutionized the PC industry and made Apple an icon of American business.
Steve was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco California to Joanne Schieble and to a Syrian graduate student. Attending graduate school in Wisconsin, was Steve’s biological mother Joanne …show more content…

A San Francisco couple had been waiting for a baby, but when the heard the chance to adopt a child, they reacted quickly. The couple named the newborn child Steve Paul. As Steve grew up he went to school at Crittenden Middle School, he was then bullied at school and at the age of 11 years old he told his step parents that he wanted to attend a different school or he would never go to school again. He later transferred schools and went to Cupertino Junior High and later went to Homestead High School. When Steve graduated Homestead High School, in 1972, he went on to attend Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He never did graduate from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, because he dropped out the first semester. Steve dropped out college to work with Steve Wozniak, They both worked together to establish their company Apple. They then later introduced the first product which was an Apple 2 computer. Jobs created Apples line as a sleek, user-friendly, graphically, oriented alternative to the IBM-Microsoft personal computer and important source in the desk top publishing. Jobs resigned in 1985 after loosing a corporate power struggle. Steve worked around the struggle and founded NeXT Computer Company in 1985, …show more content…

Steve Jobs creates short films such as Tin Toy, Geri’s Game, For The Birds. Jobs also created several movies such as Toy Story, A Bugs Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-e, Up, Toy story 3, Cars 2, Brave, and Monsters University. In 1996 Apple acquired NeXT and Jobs returned to the company, representing as Apples CEO from 1997-2000. Steve had some rough times in his life. After years of research Steve had finally found his family. His biological mother Joanne was still alive, she had actually married his father just a couple of years after Steve was born. They had given birth to a daughter, Steve’s biological sister named Mona. Mona Simpson was a young yet accomplished writer. Through the years of 1991-1994 claimed to be the worst in Steve’s career. They were some of the happiest years in his private life also. In 1990 at age of 35 after his girlfriend Tina Redsoe had turned down his proposal, he started dating a young Stanford MBA student named Laurene Powell. Laurene was blonde, and very smart and independent she was also a militant vegan. The following year on March 18, 1991 they got married in Yosemite.

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