Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might have made TIME Magazine’s title of “Person of the Year,” but the austere Financial Times has a much different take, and they’re giving the title to none other than Steve Jobs… and while there’s many reasons the Financial Times think Jobs qualifies, most of it boils down to the iPad.
According to the FT, the iPad is the “culmination of an approach that [Jobs] has seemingly been perfecting for his entire career.” They label Jobs as a visionary, but not one who is simply content to wait for technology to catch up with his inner future. Instead, he’s a “taskmaster” who accomplishes real world goals, bringing small pieces of his vision to the populace at large as he can, while simultaneously driving Apple to succeed by demanding that they release new products on a tight schedule.
Another superpower of Jobs, according to the Financial Times? He’s perfected the “reality distortion field,” and he’s superhuman enough to recover from a liver transplant in record time. I doubt there’s any reader here who’d disagree with that decision.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
