in 1984 computing was
just leaving the refrigerator, gigantic room era
This mackintosh thing came out
i bought a mactintosh to MIT. All my upper classmen are coming by and saying
"what is that, it's got pictures on it".
(macintosh startup chiime)
The mac was re imagining what a computer could be
there was this smiley face, there was a sense of humour somehow built
like this partner came in, you could go and play with
somehow its so transparent to an experience that it just enlivens you
i never thought that i would have a career as a musician.
i wanted to do everything myself
and the only way that was possible was with a mac.
Imagine how powerful it was for the kids
all of a sudden they were discovering things by themselves
It erases the classroom walls.
They could tell there was a vision behind it
It inspired people to think what's possible
but that made people do better work.
It seem to speak the same language you were speaking
it looked right and it looked elegant
it was naturally where all the designers
all the image makes would go
the mac for me is the tool to get the ideas out of my head and to collaborate
with people to explore in fields that i couldnt otherwise
we were trying to use this machine in a really
provocative and new way and nobody else was doing
it, this is what a pioneer looks like everything i do could
be done in a interesting way, using the mackintosh
all offices are like this, you give us a new paint bod
and we are going to go crazy
we are not going to go to sleep
we are not going to go to eat, we are just going to play with this thing
because its inspiring
now everyone uses this one piece of this remarkable ubiquitous technnology
i really never thought it would be this
truly world wide democratisation of creativity
the great power of tools like the macintosh is precisely that you cant predict where they are going to go
the future of creation its really bringing people together
bringing ideas togther
music
nobody had any idea 30 years ago, what the world was going to be like
or how these tools were going to be used,
they are interesting precisely because
you don;t know how they are going to be used tomorrow
and that's the beauty and power of the mackintosh