Steve Jobs: How Apple's CEO Help Transform Popular Culture

"When the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was announced last night, if you were following Twitter, what you saw was a spasm of grief. Writers, actors, musicians, your friends, comedians ... the genuine sadness was palpable, not only because he was 56 years old, but because so many saw the news while holding one of his products in their hands. This is very much what popular culture is: this hive mind, this hum of collective response. And it makes all the sense in the world, because there's a good argument to be made that no one has affected popular culture more in the last — well, you can pick your number of decades — than Steve Jobs."