Steve Jobs ignited the revolution in music, film, books and newspapers

POSSIBLY the most impressive book of last year — the best I read anyway — was about one of the most significant people to have died during 2011.

Steve Jobs of Apple was the subject of a stunning biography by Walter Isaacson, so good that it should be recommended reading for anybody studying business, communications, media or technology, and for just about anybody else beyond because those subjects are so important to our daily lives.

Jobs is possibly the most important non-political global figure of the early 21st century. The products he developed at Apple during the last years of his life were remarkable: The iPod, the iPhone and the iPad in the past decade alone, and related services such as iTunes, the App store and iCloud. Let’s also remember his revolutionary work in the 1980s in developing the Mac, which made home computing far more accessible and therefore popular.