One thing bothers me within so much of the recent coverage of the loss of Apple’s [AAPL] Steve Jobs: the frequent allusion to his so-called ‘reality distortion field.’ What is this myth that’s being propagated as a reality concerning a man who it would be far more appropriate to say had a ‘reality creation field,’ or at least a ‘reality disruption field,'” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld.
“How was leading and motivating a team which helped define the paradigm of desktop computing a reality distortion?” Evans asks. “How was it distortion to develop into the mass market those Xerox Alto-inspired ideas of mouse and keyboard and display-based computing? How was it distortion to develop the GUI notions Microsoft would later use in Windows? Where’s the distortion? All I see is leadership and change.”
“It’s time we dumped the old legend and accept that Jobs’ so-called distorted reality is the one we are in, and that the old guard are deluded to think it is anything else,” Evans writes. “It seems appropriate to me that the myth of the reality distortion field be also laid to rest, in order that we can remember Steve Jobs the man for what he was, without the distortion field some hope to shroud his memory in.”
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