Techology and social revolution: Steve Wozniak at TEDxBrussels
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- Steve Wozniak is a pioneer of the digital age, he was one of the three founders of Apple Computer, setting up in Steve Jobs' garage in 1976. Woz, as he is almost universally known, designed the hardware, circuit boards and operating system for the Apple I. After a plane crash in 1981, Wozniak played a reduced role at Apple, ending full time employment in 1987. Since then he's been a regular character on the technology scene, founding several tech companies working on remote controls, GPS technology, Lego robots and data storage among other things. He wrote his autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, in 2007 and continues to provide schools in his neighbourhood with funding, technical support and advice. Wozniak is a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, the Heinz Award, and numerous honorary doctorate degrees.
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His Child-Like enthusiasm and curiosity, combined with an amazing genius!! is sooo inspiring!! :D Amazing role model!! Beautiful talk!
I pleaded with my company that I loved so much, I pleaded with them to build this small little computer that looked like a typewriter and THEY TURNED ME DOWN 5 TIMES! So Steve and I had to start the Apple!
Wow, these words are so powerful that it motivates me to chase my dreams even after too many rejections!
this guy is Apple... he is up there with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Gary Kildall, Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack, Ted Hoff, Marc Andreessen, this guy is not a show man, this guy is a real genius.
+Martin Tovar you forgot Nikola Tesla
I was just about to comment about how wonderful this man is.
Yeah and Jobs screwed him over.
like Edison and Telsa
edison? lmao
Wozniak is a real smart man, not only technology but also how to live life. He knows when to get in and get out of limelight and publicity. He lives life with freedom and low key with his dream and happiness.
It's clear he and Jobs had completely different views.
Jobs was lying to him and stealing money from, at the early years.
Wozniak wanted innovation and the best for the customer, jobs wanted money. And money only.
@@alumpy-acho112 For Jobs company was respect. He just wanted to revolutionize the technology. Money wasn't what he wants! Thats why he was removed from his own company!
@@iAbhijeetShukla yes, Jobs viewed money as a way to conduct more R&D. He knew when the Apple II came out that he wanted to have a “computer in a book with a radio link for under $1000” by 1990. You can take a look at his speech in 1983 in Aspen I believe to hear him say this. The key difference between Jobs and Wozniak was that Jobs wanted closed architecture with no upgradability, and Wozniak wanted expansion ports. It wasn’t necessarily about money as much as Jobs feeling they should design exactly what the customer wants and need.
Jobs wanted to be a guru that people worshiped. Said so himself after a trip to India.
Love the passion he has.
Yes! Smarts don't mean squat without passion...
These are the type of lectures I enjoy; As long as it is connected, vomiting information on me like a continuous stream of consciousness is fine :) Woz needs to do more Ted Talks
Wow, I didn't know that Wozniak shared my views about software licensing. About a year or to ago, I had asked myself why we treat digital products any differently than physical products. If I buy something, I should be able to give it away, lend it, or sell it; there shouldn't be an expiration date, and I shouldn't have to ask someone else's permission to use it. This is why I believe software piracy is so rampant. People don't want to pay to borrow stuff for an arbitrary amount of time. It's also probably why the console video game industry is going down the toilet. It would be nice if someone could devise a new system that didn't rely on heavy encryption and where users would actually own the copies of software they buy.
Agreed!
This man is a genius. I love him so much. He speaks the truth and isn't just after money like Steve Jobs was. He has a lot of money yes but he knows what truly matters in life.
maybe Jobs was so much into get appreciation (wealth gives you that) and recognition, that this overrode his search for good ideas and in business world lack of time to evaluate these viewpoints and ideas. In the beginning, in the garage, they must have had something common views, that they decided to start common company. In today's terms, community management and communication, Woz understood this better and the significance to business.
I still dont know, who pushed the design part [the most]? I mean in everything from casing design to architecture design to OS and API design etc... Jobs was into industrial design "case of product" and maybe as much how OS look'n'feel is, based on movies.
He is such a legend. Far more impressive to me than any other celebrity.
This man is one of the engineering gods!
Wow... What an amazing man! I love how these talks are so short but have so much knowledge and humility! 💕🤟✌️
I love the idea, "Technology is to make life easy."
What an amazing honor genius Steve Wozniak he is. We are lucky to still witness this genius. God bless you Steve Wozniak
Wow, he is so insightful. I thought he is lucky to have jobs beside him. Now I feel they are both lucky to have each other.
Steve is a very close friend of mine, so was Jobs. He is an extraordinary person. Recently my mum has been ill, Steve and Janet always take time to ask about her weekly, they are busy people but remember their friends when they are down. I am really blessed to have them as a part of my family!!
great for you
@@SuperFilmregisseur what a wonderful reply.
@@beejaybhatt lol, I mean it tho! Steve was like no other, and the fact that he touched your life (touch the life of others around you) is miraculous!!! However I don't know how much is truth and how much is fiction in the marketing of apple and steve and the truth about steve as a person, but your story seems a blessing
Excuse me I was confusing Steve Jobs, but yeah Steve Wozniak seems like the brain behind the operation behind the vision. Even though Steve Jobs' message seemed more profound/intense, this persons integrity and genius is beautiful absolutely amazing
I love how he's wearing his nixie watch, it's so cool
Woz is the man. Jobs has always been marketing, industrial design type.
My Greatest respect For this Wonderful Man
This guy is great.
We need to learn more from Wozniak than any other tech-wiz-geek of the time. He's the god-father of open-source.
Great talk by Woz. He mentions many things that I've wondered about myself, like the "cloud" and what it really means for users (not good for sure). I also like his mentioning that government is necessary and a good thing so as not to be taken advantage by the rich and powerful among others. I wonder also who are those dark figures in the balcony?
Errm i think technology is spelt wrong in the title of the video?
2 years later: It's still not fixed.
@Karen Prigge Yes it is.
@Moon Base Depends on the country and time period in which you live! ;)
@Moon Base Sigh... Did you consider there might be more than one flavour of English?
no it's a new religion, join now: Techology
Steve Wozniak was really the co-founder of Apple! Another real genius!
He was the only genius at at Apple. Jobs was good at selling the product.
Huge fan 's open minding waiting for more brilliant people's presentation! Liberty
woah what a incredible , humble and extraordinary genius .All humans on this planet are lucky and gifted to have people like steve Woz , claude shannon , Turing , sir Issac newton , charles darwin,.. these are real Gods . All Humans are indebted to few like them till our universe exists
But I do have to admit that Wozniak is a genius and Jobs wouldn't be where he was, without him. Two bright minds to make a perfect company.
now he is a free thinker, Woz you are totally right.
He is one genius of man.
It's funny how his customization dreams live on with the PC and not Mac
RiBo u
PC is still closed in a software sense, if he dreams of a open thing then woudn't he pick Linux?
He is a genius Steve Wozniak and knowledgeable lecturer .. An astonishing professor he is Steve Wozniak
I LOVE AND RESPECT THIS MAN!! HE IS SO INSPIRATIONAL! :))
Where in the world did you get that from his talk?
One of my heroes. A true legend.
Woz is the real genius of technology
Without the technology that woz and others created in the 70's and 80's we wouldn't have smart phones or the internet .
If all of these big companies took advice from the Woz we would be living in the furture....but sadly that will never happen because of greed. The Woz doesn't value technology more than human beings and that isn't the most profitable business model.
I see nothing has changed from Woz's starting days... big companies behave exatcly the same. Unfortunately, I see politics in many places more and more listen to these big companies, in effect preventing small woz's to do what they want "coz it is not the right way to live".
The Wizard of Woz...
Wow how amazing is he😵
"Computer people love to do lots of things with computers".
Apple has not sold a customizable computer in over 3 years.
+I Dislike the new TH-cam But then again, they don't necessarily target "computer people". Also those people have moved on from tinkering with computers to more open devices like rasberry pis, arudinos etc. Upgrading the ram or swapping a graphics card in your PC doesn't make you one of computer tinkerers he was talking about.
You almost had a point there.
+I Dislike the new TH-cam That was the exact opposite of Woz's philosophy. He wanted more customizability back in the day.
Steve Wozniak and Tim Berners Lee are modern day prometheus..
And those who invented TCP/IP protocols, and the digital audio and video encoding (mp3,mp4...).
Beautiful!
This is like everything I feel about computers in one talk. I love stuff on the computer that makes my life easier. When I have so much restrictions and regulations on stuff I've already purchased, I don't bother messing with it. That's why people turn to piracy. There are a lot of computer wizzes out there who make free programs and open their source codes and knowledge to everyone, which in turn spawns even more improvement: we need businesses and government to start thinking the same way.
I would agree with you, that's the part where Job's character came in and things started to change.
And the reason why Wozniak isn't in apple, is probably because of Wozniak's moral views and ethics. Just my opinion which I put together with my collected information. Would like to ask himself about it.
This is very good & so true
He's brilliant, he should be at Apple now.
Thank you Steve, Wozniak and Jobs for helping pave the way to democratizing technology.
Our lives are longer, somewhat safer in 1st world places, and we pay the price to have it. We give up income for leisure, we give up finite time for leisure, losing any increases or productivity. We give up where to live for either jobs, education or economy. July 77 I did litho and photography work for Steve. They were a block away. I managed the camera store (Focus) next to Mervyn's in Cuoertino He had designed a new daughterboard he called it and wanted his line drawing made into film and accurate for printing it. I had no idea what it was for. What Apple card was a big deal in Fall 77, you tell me. They bought film and photo finishing there before I showed up. I was a De Anza student. Just got out of Navy as a photographer in 75 and back from France in mid June 77.
Woz is great!
No iTunes on Linux :/
i love this
The thumbnail is how Steve responds when his wife catches him in the cookie jar late at night.
Epic Steve Wozniak!!!!!
15:22
amazing
I thought I was watching Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation.
awesome
such a brilliant man, such a great dreamer just like all true geniuses..shame the big business owners control everything now. Also problem is they took his dream and changed it into something where people are dumber now and don't know how to do anything with their computers beyond point and click
Purpose of technology is to do good and share
What are you kidding? Keep going Woz!
Theory 1: He's so good that he can superimpose the words from his mind and read them off as if they were on the paper. He just needed a pices of paper to superimpose onto P:
Theory 2: Maybe he just likes paper.
It's the things to do after the speech list...
@Wozniak And now apple RAM is Soldered to the board. Sad
And the SSD
Wozniak is not in charge at Apple.
one of Wozniak legacies (in apple) was designing computers with swappable components :)
It's an iPaper
Because having something to hold in your hand/hands makes you more comfortable than staying with empty hands in front of a big audience :)
After watching this I respect him wayyyyy more than Steve Jobs
Probably to keep track of time, you can notice in the beginning he talks really fast then slows down after a while :)
Cool, more untold stories.
So the great conundrum is does emancipating technology or protecting creators with copyright help with innovation?
I'm sure it'll be there....
as long as the printing press keeps running
1:48 and that's the paradox of technology...they probably weren't less happy because they had to do laundry by hand. Technology is like an addiction in that it makes life better but then we grow accustomed to it, need it, and in most cases were just as happy or even less happy than we were before. That being said tech is pretty cool though.
Because he doesn't come on stage like this very often, and if you're a person like that, you tend to forget things when you start speaking.
The note is to keep himself on track.
Sources: Been a public speaker since long time and this is how I evolved.
I wish many people like steve wozniak would join hand for humanity grow
i want him to be my professor. sick of yawning in class.
Imagine Apple if Woz took over instead of Tim Cook.
Always thought Woz has encyclopedic memory and does not embellish like Jobs.
It is not blank, just check the time 16:05 when is he turning the paper. There is some handwriting - I see it at 16:08. He must used a pen with a thin tip and pale blue ink or he has used a pencil O:-)
"Jobs was also the man who took care of the design and user-friendly system"
more specifically "user-friendly system"
Are you saying he created the gui? i didn't know jobs knew how to program?
Steve, come back to apple, PLEASE!
I Woz there. Ninth row.
iTunes for windows phone and android.. what a dream
It's to bad I couldn't meet up with Steve Wozniak when he was in West Des Moines, Iowa at the West campus of Des Moines Area Community College.
9 years are not enough for stubborn people to let go. It is not about build for free or not getting paid. Apple is a good example for monetization of open technology. It is the circulation of wealth to those who put their existence to improve prosperity. Protectionism is painful for those who have abilities to better the world.
2:30 Well said: cars used to cost 1 full annual salary. Now they cost 10% salary. Homes on the other hand ...
its interesting to compare Wozniak to the usual TED speaker
Salutations.
Wondered why their 1st computers that they sold were $666
"And then came the spreadsheet" and with it went the innovators, the dreamers and (dare I say it?) the thinkers. A wondrous little machine that was infinitely hackable became a grey-toned corporate business machine. I suppose if it hadn't been taken over, another computer would have taken its place earlier. For all of Steve's magnificent wizardry, the Apple II remained a very high-priced machine compared to the rest of what came later.
Don't believe it? How about 2000 bucks for the base unit with no floppies or monitor, (forget joysticks). You could buy an IBM XT with a color monitor, 2 disk drives, 1 meg of RAM and a printer for that price in the mid-eighties and it ran several different spreadsheet programs. The Apple II languished until the end of its life as a 16-bit multicolor box with its own DOS in the early nineties.
IMHO what killed Apple dominance in the late eighties to mid-nineties was the fact that it cost too frickin' much.
good sense of humor
Folks: Let's hear what Apple chief engineer has to say
WOZ: Apple sucks today
technology is spelled wrong in the title...
I'm surprised that he didn't get a standing ovation for the comment about iTunes be cross platform. Sounded like RMS for a sec.
10:33 What an honest revelation ... I think this should be spread more although it's not a news,so as to stop these unethical business tricks.
Be safe out there steven...
Yes sir
Why are Woz and Stallman not best friends?
Only a sales man? You sure don't know much about this topic. Jobs was the one who created a product out of it, who made the first Apple computers available to everyone instead of Wozniak's idea of just giving them away to geeks who could build something on their own.
Those two guys made the perfect combination to make something incredible and with the help of other professinals to create Apple Computers Inc.
Furthermore, Jobs was also the man who took care of the design and user-friendly system
Seems like much of the audience has no real understanding of just how significant this innovation was. Very sad. They forget how recent an innovation this was. boggles the mind.
that`s how this number functioned, like Hewlett Packard
You are like me Woz
He doesnt take a break or pause when talking
Starts with "GO" and it's not God. Good on ya Steve.
Living god talking that is all.