Jobs’ genius, said Isaacson, lay in his meticulous eye, his passion for perfection, and his abiding belief that beauty and technology weren’t mutually exclusive, but inherently intertwined. What Jobs gave back to the world was a revolutionary new way to engage with it: sleek personal computers, phones, and media players that made music, photos, and the Internet available with the touch of a finger. But in the end, what’s most important, Jobs said, “is what you put back.” In 2011, when Jobs finally knew he wasn’t going to beat the pancreatic cancer he had suffered with for years, Jobs told Isaacson he had come to realize that history, the history of creativity, the history of technology, is like a river from which you can take things.
Isaacson’s talk, the 2013 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture, was sponsored by Harvard’s Department of the History of Science. On Monday at the Radcliffe Gymnasium, Isaacson explored the genius of the three transformative men, unraveling both their intellectual brilliance and their common desire to help change the world. That understanding that they were part of a wider world was paramount for three famous men about whom Isaacson went on to write books: founding father Benjamin Franklin, physicist Albert Einstein, and, most recently, Apple guru Steve Jobs. “In the end, you are going to figure out it’s about being part of something larger than yourself.” The address, recalled Isaacson, a history and literature concentrator and now a best-selling biographer, was titled “What We Forgot to Tell You.” “It’s not all about you,” Gomes told the students, Isaacson recalled. Gomes offer graduating seniors his parting words of wisdom. In the spring of 1974, Walter Isaacson sat in Harvard’s Memorial Church and listened to the Rev.
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