“The only way that we’re going to ratchet up our species is to take the best and to spread it around to everybody, so that everybody grows up with better things.”
Steve Jobs
Apparently, someone found a lost interview from 1995 when Steve Jobs was deep into ratcheting up the species, and it’s actually going to be shown in the theaters. But on YouTube, you can find another lost interview from 1990 that’s got to be equally as fascinating as anything he could have said in 1995. He’s young and he’s thinking big and different.
The whole 1990 thing’s available on YouTube in five parts. It seems like raw footage. He’ll talk between takes and ask for do overs.
You can watch the trailer of the lost 1995 interview here. Listen as Steve Jobs says, “The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. We were on a mission from God to save Apple.”
So who’s going to ratchet up the species now that Steve is gone? And did he, or did Apple, actually ratchet up the species? Who even thinks in those terms? And what does that even mean?
Has the iPad, for instance, enabled an evolutionary step forward for humanity? Has the Internet?
What happened in Egypt? How much was that due to technology? And did it enable a ratcheting up of anything, or just a change of government? And is a change of government ever something that actually improves the entire species? How about the American Revolution? Did it improve the species or just show the species the way to a better form of government? It’s hard to say we’ve become all that much better in a couple hundred years.
Iran once overthrew the Shah. And ended up with probably an even worse society.
Just thinking out loud. I’d better stop.
To see the video clips from the 1990 interview when Steve had no glasses, you’ll have to go to YouTube where you can watch in five installments. Let me ratchet up the simplicity and provide the link to the first one. You can take it from there.
Listen to the first one, as Steve Jobs talks about the condor being the most efficient creature at getting from point a to point b, something he remembered from an article he read when he was 12. And that humans didn’t do so well, but…but…a human on a bicycle turned out to be way more efficient that a condor. Because, and this is what impressed Steve Jobs, “humans are tool builders.”
And for proof, just look at the previous post.
I guess that’s what Steve Jobs was, a master tool builder who in 1990 thought of the computer as “a bicycle with a mind.”