Steve Jobs’ friends and family launched an archive to celebrate his life
Friends and family of Apple founder Steve Jobs have launched the Steve Jobs Archive, an organization celebrating the tech titan. You can visit the archive at stevejobsarchive.com.
Right now the page is simple. At the top is a poetic email Jobs sent to himself about his admiration for humanity. Scrolling down reveals some notable quotes from Jobs, including some from his famous 2005 commencement speech at Stanford. At the end, there is a short “About us” description for the archive. Video and audio clips of Jobs are laced in along the way.
“With respect for the past and excitement for the future, the Steve Jobs Archive offers people the tools and opportunities to make their own contribution,”[ads1]; the website says. “We are building programs, communities, collections and partnerships that reflect Steve’s values and carry his sense of possibility forward.” A press release also says the archive will “serve as a repository for historical material relating to Steve, some of which has never before been made public.” More announcements about additional offers and projects will be made in the coming months.
The archive was introduced by Laurene Powell Jobs, Jobs’ widow, at Vox Media’s Code conference on Wednesday. “While we have some artifacts and some actual real material, the archive is much more about ideas,” she said.
According to Powell Jobs, the archive “is rooted in Steve’s long-held belief that once you understand that outside of the natural world, everything in the built environment and all the systems that govern our life on the planet were built and designed by other people. Once you have that insight, you understand that you as a human being can change it, can poke it, can maybe question it and stretch it. That’s how human progress happens.”
