Steve Jobs’ legacy - One of the great men of our time

STEVE JOBS, the great, if not the greatest, American hero of the age has died.

President Barack Obama became a hero of sorts because he overcame history’s burdens but Steve Jobs is a modern hero because he did so much to imagine and to facilitate the future.

Where others communicated with us he helped us communicate with each other in ways that revolutionised person-to-person and citizen-to-citizen interaction. He turned what was once a vertical process into something much more horizontal and egalitarian. Something with real consequences and something with real power.