WEBVTT 00:00:01.306 --> 00:00:04.969 -In 1984, computing was just leaving the 00:00:05.217 --> 00:00:08.076 refrigerator, gigantic-room era. 00:00:09.185 --> 00:00:10.854 This Macintosh thing came out. 00:00:10.854 --> 00:00:13.218 I brought a Macintosh to MIT. 00:00:13.218 --> 00:00:14.886 All my upperclassmen are coming by 00:00:14.886 --> 00:00:17.694 and saying "What is that? It's got pictures on it!" 00:00:22.342 --> 00:00:25.988 -The Mac was reimagining what a computer could be. 00:00:25.988 --> 00:00:27.932 -There was a smiley face. 00:00:27.932 --> 00:00:29.885 There was a sense of humor, somehow built. 00:00:29.885 --> 00:00:33.266 Like this partner came in you could go and play with. 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.304 -Somehow, it's so transparent to an experience, 00:00:37.843 --> 00:00:39.683 that it just enlivens you. 00:00:41.453 --> 00:00:44.259 -I never thought that I would have a career as a musician, 00:00:44.259 --> 00:00:46.260 I wanted to do everything myself, 00:00:46.260 --> 00:00:47.927 and the only way that was possible 00:00:47.927 --> 00:00:49.089 was with Mac. 00:00:50.862 --> 00:00:53.156 -Imagine how powerful it was for the kids. 00:00:53.156 --> 00:00:55.783 All of a sudden they were discovering things by themselves. 00:00:55.783 --> 00:00:58.316 It erases the classroom walls. 00:00:58.706 --> 00:01:01.798 -They could tell there was a vision behind it. 00:01:02.208 --> 00:01:04.927 -It inspired people to think what's possible, 00:01:04.927 --> 00:01:06.693 but that made people do better work. 00:01:08.756 --> 00:01:10.884 -It seemed to speak the same language we were speaking. 00:01:10.884 --> 00:01:12.510 It looked great, and it was elegant. 00:01:12.510 --> 00:01:14.677 It was naturally where all designers, 00:01:14.677 --> 00:01:16.724 and all image-makers would go. 00:01:16.724 --> 00:01:18.474 -The Mac for me is the tool to 00:01:18.474 --> 00:01:20.843 get my ideas out of my head, 00:01:20.843 --> 00:01:22.678 and to collaborate with people, 00:01:22.678 --> 00:01:25.022 to explore fields that I couldn't otherwise. 00:01:27.177 --> 00:01:29.233 -We were trying to use this machine 00:01:29.233 --> 00:01:31.479 in a really provocative and new way. 00:01:31.864 --> 00:01:34.064 And it was just really cool-- nobody else was doing it. 00:01:34.064 --> 00:01:36.012 -This is what a pioneer looks like. 00:01:36.259 --> 00:01:38.570 -Everything I do could be done 00:01:38.570 --> 00:01:41.327 in a much more interesting way, using the Macintosh. 00:01:41.564 --> 00:01:42.917 All artists are like this. 00:01:42.917 --> 00:01:44.669 You give us a new paint box, 00:01:44.669 --> 00:01:46.339 and we're going to go crazy. 00:01:46.339 --> 00:01:47.390 We're not going to go to sleep. 00:01:47.390 --> 00:01:48.557 We're not going to go to eat. 00:01:48.557 --> 00:01:50.637 We're just going to go and play with this thing, 00:01:50.637 --> 00:01:52.304 because it's inspiring. 00:01:53.304 --> 00:01:56.599 -Now everyone uses this one piece 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.640 of remarkable, ubiquitous technology. 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.561 -I really never thought it would be this. 00:02:03.023 --> 00:02:06.447 Truly worldwide democratization of creativity. 00:02:07.354 --> 00:02:09.276 -The great power of tools like the Macintosh 00:02:09.276 --> 00:02:11.863 is precisely that you can't predict 00:02:11.863 --> 00:02:13.501 where they're going to go. 00:02:13.501 --> 00:02:15.033 -The future of creation, 00:02:15.033 --> 00:02:17.668 it's really bringing people together, 00:02:17.668 --> 00:02:19.267 and bringing ideas together. 00:02:28.829 --> 00:02:30.829 -Nobody had any idea thirty years ago 00:02:30.829 --> 00:02:32.830 what the world was going to be like now, 00:02:32.830 --> 00:02:34.724 or how these tools were going to be used. 00:02:35.329 --> 00:02:38.162 They are interesting, precisely because 00:02:38.162 --> 00:02:40.440 you don't know how they're going to be used tomorrow. 00:02:42.636 --> 00:02:45.172 And that's the beauty, and the power of Macintosh.