Film Review: Steve’s Job Obliterated His iFriends and iFamily

Jobs saw himself as the conductor of the whiz-bang inventors and cyber-technician team. Maybe it was also from the impression of Ozawa’s impetuous, flying wild-artist hair that Jobs learned to layer a bit of artist-presentation over his own cyber-wonkiness. Because without the presentation, he was just a salesman.

Ancient tribal wisdom has it that gods generated cultural, artistic, technological, and spiritual upgrades in humans, by incarnating as humans themselves and walking among us. Demons were thought to be able to do the same thing, using the same method, but contributing an inhibiting effect.

Given the computer technology seismic shift that Steve Jobs caused, in the past he might have been considered a god.

However, the way Jobs cold-bloodedly disowned his own daughter, manipulated people (in his own words: “I’m indifferent to whether people dislike me”), and refused to relinquish even a tiny bit of the thunder he wrested from Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, that all doesn’t make Steve Jobs seem too terribly god-like.

Michael Fassbender portrays the pioneering founder of Apple in "Steve Jobs," directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award-winner Aaron Sorkin. Universal Pictures/Universal Studios