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Revolutionary Change Vs. Evolutionary

January 31, 2010 on 10:20 am | In Build, IdBlog, Tools | Add a Comment

NPR unearthed a reminder of what revolutionary change looks like with this 1984 video of Steve Jobs unveiling the Macintosh. At the time, packing that much easy-to-use functionality into that small a package really was “insanely great.” It was a revolutionary leap forward from the DOS model of computing.

Last week Steve Jobs introduced the iPad to politely tepid reviews. By all accounts, this was an example of evolutionary change — a small step toward the unrealized future.