Techology and social revolution: Steve Wozniak at TEDxBrussels

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  • @sachinpc
    @sachinpc 11 років тому +61

    His Child-Like enthusiasm and curiosity, combined with an amazing genius!! is sooo inspiring!! :D Amazing role model!! Beautiful talk!

  • @JS-ti3ns
    @JS-ti3ns 5 років тому +15

    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!

  • @jparsit
    @jparsit 7 років тому +24

    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.

  • @martintovar6666
    @martintovar6666 8 років тому +196

    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.

    • @johnbanks4761
      @johnbanks4761 8 років тому +28

      +Martin Tovar you forgot Nikola Tesla

    • @PauloConstantino167
      @PauloConstantino167 7 років тому

      I was just about to comment about how wonderful this man is.

    • @contrafax
      @contrafax 7 років тому +8

      Yeah and Jobs screwed him over.

    • @CanyouplsNot
      @CanyouplsNot 7 років тому +2

      like Edison and Telsa

    • @jeticebane2042
      @jeticebane2042 6 років тому +3

      edison? lmao

  • @victorliu2614
    @victorliu2614 8 років тому +33

    Love the passion he has.

    • @sunshines4555
      @sunshines4555 7 років тому

      Yes! Smarts don't mean squat without passion...

  • @PauloConstantino167
    @PauloConstantino167 7 років тому +10

    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.

    • @effexon
      @effexon 5 років тому

      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.

    • @effexon
      @effexon 5 років тому

      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.

  • @juancpgo
    @juancpgo 11 років тому +124

    It's clear he and Jobs had completely different views.

    • @DupczacyBawol
      @DupczacyBawol 7 років тому +12

      Jobs was lying to him and stealing money from, at the early years.

    • @alumpy-acho112
      @alumpy-acho112 3 роки тому +4

      Wozniak wanted innovation and the best for the customer, jobs wanted money. And money only.

    • @iAbhijeetShukla
      @iAbhijeetShukla 3 роки тому +5

      @@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!

    • @tjhamerica
      @tjhamerica 3 роки тому

      @@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.

    • @katcarp3346
      @katcarp3346 2 роки тому +1

      Jobs wanted to be a guru that people worshiped. Said so himself after a trip to India.

  • @raiedaljaafary2020
    @raiedaljaafary2020 3 роки тому +1

    What an amazing honor genius Steve Wozniak he is. We are lucky to still witness this genius. God bless you Steve Wozniak

  • @beejaybhatt
    @beejaybhatt 12 років тому +1

    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!!

    • @SuperFilmregisseur
      @SuperFilmregisseur 2 роки тому

      great for you

    • @beejaybhatt
      @beejaybhatt 2 роки тому

      @@SuperFilmregisseur what a wonderful reply.

    • @SuperFilmregisseur
      @SuperFilmregisseur 2 роки тому +1

      @@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

    • @SuperFilmregisseur
      @SuperFilmregisseur 2 роки тому +1

      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

  • @wajideu5005
    @wajideu5005 10 років тому +21

    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.

    • @pdspot
      @pdspot 3 роки тому

      Agreed!

  • @malikurac2836
    @malikurac2836 4 місяці тому

    You have actually given me more details than what i had expected. This is so helpful. Thanks so much and please release more like such.This video has helped me a lot to understand what I have been looking for, keep it up. This really touched.. almost felt likee very thing was directly meant for me. It’s never to late to make something happen!!

  • @virtualensaniti2824
    @virtualensaniti2824 3 роки тому +3

    Wow... What an amazing man! I love how these talks are so short but have so much knowledge and humility! 💕🤟✌️

  • @jqyhlmnp
    @jqyhlmnp 8 років тому +15

    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

  • @linjia5168
    @linjia5168 3 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @thenewboston2487
    @thenewboston2487 3 роки тому +8

    This man is one of the engineering gods!

  • @IronMan-qi3yg
    @IronMan-qi3yg 4 роки тому +15

    He is such a legend. Far more impressive to me than any other celebrity.

  • @almaguapa-sailboatliveaboa440
    @almaguapa-sailboatliveaboa440 2 роки тому +2

    We need to learn more from Wozniak than any other tech-wiz-geek of the time. He's the god-father of open-source.

  • @nenglay9546
    @nenglay9546 4 роки тому +1

    Huge fan 's open minding waiting for more brilliant people's presentation! Liberty

  • @avinkon
    @avinkon 2 роки тому

    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

  • @inkboy12345
    @inkboy12345 9 років тому +43

    Errm i think technology is spelt wrong in the title of the video?

    • @cybercat1531
      @cybercat1531 7 років тому +12

      2 years later: It's still not fixed.

    • @whythatspreposterous
      @whythatspreposterous 6 років тому +2

      @Karen Prigge Yes it is.

    • @whythatspreposterous
      @whythatspreposterous 5 років тому

      @Moon Base Depends on the country and time period in which you live! ;)

    • @whythatspreposterous
      @whythatspreposterous 5 років тому

      @Moon Base Sigh... Did you consider there might be more than one flavour of English?

    • @agentg0215
      @agentg0215 4 роки тому +2

      no it's a new religion, join now: Techology

  • @arpitbhatiya6000
    @arpitbhatiya6000 8 років тому +11

    I love the idea, "Technology is to make life easy."

  • @Shackleford_Rusty
    @Shackleford_Rusty 12 років тому +7

    My Greatest respect For this Wonderful Man

  • @raiedaljaafary2020
    @raiedaljaafary2020 3 роки тому

    He is a genius Steve Wozniak and knowledgeable lecturer .. An astonishing professor he is Steve Wozniak

  • @jonsl2000
    @jonsl2000 5 років тому +5

    Woz is the man. Jobs has always been marketing, industrial design type.

  • @srinivaskari
    @srinivaskari 8 років тому +15

    This guy is great.

  • @nancylaytham1719
    @nancylaytham1719 9 років тому +15

    Steve Wozniak was really the co-founder of Apple! Another real genius!

    • @AyAy008
      @AyAy008 5 років тому +1

      He was the only genius at at Apple. Jobs was good at selling the product.

  • @Charles_King1
    @Charles_King1 8 років тому +6

    I love how he's wearing his nixie watch, it's so cool

  • @em2012ish
    @em2012ish 8 років тому +31

    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.

    • @effexon
      @effexon 5 років тому +1

      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".

  • @Siisandor
    @Siisandor 11 років тому +1

    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.

  • @rlv4304
    @rlv4304 8 років тому +4

    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?

  • @ashenone5774
    @ashenone5774 12 років тому +3

    I LOVE AND RESPECT THIS MAN!! HE IS SO INSPIRATIONAL! :))

  • @daydreamerindian
    @daydreamerindian 10 років тому +16

    He is one genius of man.

  • @alexandrei64
    @alexandrei64 11 років тому +2

    now he is a free thinker, Woz you are totally right.

  • @ShreyaMitra-kl2og
    @ShreyaMitra-kl2og 4 місяці тому

    Very nice video.. it's clear wonz and jobs had completely different views,, thank you for sharing

  • @andres65080
    @andres65080 9 років тому +3

    Thank you Steve, Wozniak and Jobs for helping pave the way to democratizing technology.

  • @MrYllie
    @MrYllie 11 років тому +4

    Woz is the real genius of technology

  • @ayb100
    @ayb100 3 роки тому +1

    One of my heroes. A true legend.

  • @IDislikeTheNewYoutube
    @IDislikeTheNewYoutube 9 років тому +19

    "Computer people love to do lots of things with computers".
    Apple has not sold a customizable computer in over 3 years.

    • @maremp5
      @maremp5 9 років тому +4

      +I Dislike the new UA-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.

    • @IDislikeTheNewYoutube
      @IDislikeTheNewYoutube 9 років тому

      You almost had a point there.

    • @ErikBoesen
      @ErikBoesen 9 років тому +2

      +I Dislike the new UA-cam That was the exact opposite of Woz's philosophy. He wanted more customizability back in the day.

  • @stevea5985
    @stevea5985 8 років тому +3

    Without the technology that woz and others created in the 70's and 80's we wouldn't have smart phones or the internet .

  • @PromotingTheBeat
    @PromotingTheBeat 12 років тому +1

    Where in the world did you get that from his talk?

  • @zaccaira4649
    @zaccaira4649 8 років тому +6

    Wow how amazing is he😵

  • @ComputerHistoryArchivesProject
    @ComputerHistoryArchivesProject 8 років тому +9

    Woz is great!

  • @Siisandor
    @Siisandor 11 років тому +2

    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.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 7 років тому +6

    The Wizard of Woz...

  • @rjbse
    @rjbse 8 років тому +44

    It's funny how his customization dreams live on with the PC and not Mac

    • @tonyboyce123
      @tonyboyce123 6 років тому

      RiBo u

    • @wil7vin
      @wil7vin 6 років тому +6

      PC is still closed in a software sense, if he dreams of a open thing then woudn't he pick Linux?

  • @DBomber_24
    @DBomber_24 4 місяці тому

    12:41 "we own things that we had", now almost everything is subscription which literally means we don't own things that we have. We need more Woz to lead tech companies who will be more consumer first type of guy rather than profit profit profit kind of guy.

  • @gusgusingpintor186
    @gusgusingpintor186 9 років тому +18

    Steve Wozniak and Tim Berners Lee are modern day prometheus..

    • @DupczacyBawol
      @DupczacyBawol 7 років тому

      And those who invented TCP/IP protocols, and the digital audio and video encoding (mp3,mp4...).

  • @_sayan_roy_
    @_sayan_roy_ 8 років тому +1

    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.

  • @mariomguy
    @mariomguy 11 років тому

    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.

  • @ritapower21
    @ritapower21 11 років тому +1

    This is very good & so true

  • @josephbohme7917
    @josephbohme7917 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @frankwolftown
    @frankwolftown 11 років тому +2

    What are you kidding? Keep going Woz!

  • @mattsupertramp6506
    @mattsupertramp6506 4 роки тому

    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.

  • @pawelmagnowski2014
    @pawelmagnowski2014 9 років тому

    2:30 Well said: cars used to cost 1 full annual salary. Now they cost 10% salary. Homes on the other hand ...

  • @Shinjeez
    @Shinjeez 12 років тому

    Because having something to hold in your hand/hands makes you more comfortable than staying with empty hands in front of a big audience :)

  • @CruseTan
    @CruseTan 12 років тому +2

    i love this

  • @billycullen6832
    @billycullen6832 7 років тому +1

    Beautiful!

  • @_AmanAalam
    @_AmanAalam 12 років тому

    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.

  • @alik2003
    @alik2003 11 років тому +1

    Epic Steve Wozniak!!!!!

  • @dadiron4217
    @dadiron4217 Рік тому

    Purpose of technology is to do good and share

  • @johnbanks4761
    @johnbanks4761 8 років тому +1

    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

  • @SevenDeMagnus
    @SevenDeMagnus 5 років тому +1

    Cool, more untold stories.

  • @ArjunBCOMYadav
    @ArjunBCOMYadav 3 роки тому +1

    After watching this I respect him wayyyyy more than Steve Jobs

  • @ShadowAngel005
    @ShadowAngel005 12 років тому +2

    It's an iPaper

  • @quatroproz
    @quatroproz 12 років тому +1

    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.

    • @sunshines4555
      @sunshines4555 7 років тому

      It's the things to do after the speech list...

  • @Jake-Day
    @Jake-Day 12 років тому +6

    I Woz there. Ninth row.

  • @mbplove
    @mbplove 11 років тому +1

    No iTunes on Linux :/

  • @30_Centuryneko
    @30_Centuryneko 4 місяці тому

    Te quiero mucho Steve Wozniak

  • @werwars1190
    @werwars1190 3 роки тому

    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.

  • @lostson7122
    @lostson7122 10 років тому +2

    The thumbnail is how Steve responds when his wife catches him in the cookie jar late at night.

  • @Samiamthetechman
    @Samiamthetechman 12 років тому +1

    Steve, come back to apple, PLEASE!

  • @Siisandor
    @Siisandor 11 років тому

    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

  • @ParsiMusik
    @ParsiMusik 9 років тому +25

    @Wozniak And now apple RAM is Soldered to the board. Sad

    • @ericb7937
      @ericb7937 7 років тому +1

      And the SSD

    • @DupczacyBawol
      @DupczacyBawol 7 років тому

      Wozniak is not in charge at Apple.

    • @ParsiMusik
      @ParsiMusik 7 років тому +5

      one of Wozniak legacies (in apple) was designing computers with swappable components :)

  • @fragm3nted
    @fragm3nted 12 років тому +1

    i want him to be my professor. sick of yawning in class.

  • @naustradmas
    @naustradmas 12 років тому +2

    awesome

  • @General4474
    @General4474 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @aliakbarsaeed
    @aliakbarsaeed 9 років тому +1

    I wish many people like steve wozniak would join hand for humanity grow

  • @theholeybabu
    @theholeybabu 9 років тому +8

    basically money is the most obsolete societal factor holding humanity back. imagine the possibilities if money did not exist at all...

  • @snyggmikael
    @snyggmikael 10 років тому +6

    Yeaa Woz is a genius and all that talk.... but some of the fundamental points that he raises are very interesting. And in over all, the answer we are looking for in total freedom is that technology will free us ultimately. Because it will make the old hierarchies in our way of living together outdated simply put it. The systems of schools and jobs will try and take that liberation away from us as long as possible. But with the right minds and tools in our hands, we will finally be able to run our own lives as we se fit. Not like a virus killing and destroying its host. But creating a symbios with it. Peace!

  • @herodionhartono8790
    @herodionhartono8790 7 років тому +2

    I thought I was watching Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation.

  • @jonsl2000
    @jonsl2000 5 років тому +2

    Always thought Woz has encyclopedic memory and does not embellish like Jobs.

  • @BackAlleyKnifeFighter
    @BackAlleyKnifeFighter 6 років тому +2

    Imagine Apple if Woz took over instead of Tim Cook.

  • @TM-gu6bp
    @TM-gu6bp 3 роки тому +1

    Wondered why their 1st computers that they sold were $666

  • @iAbhijeetShukla
    @iAbhijeetShukla 3 роки тому +1

    You are like me Woz

  • @bananian
    @bananian 7 років тому

    So the great conundrum is does emancipating technology or protecting creators with copyright help with innovation?

  • @JasonParksVirtual
    @JasonParksVirtual 11 років тому +4

    Starts with "GO" and it's not God. Good on ya Steve.

  • @Betelgeusewaitforit
    @Betelgeusewaitforit 3 роки тому +1

    Please dont give the Great Woz a timer.. He is an institution.. Let him speak.. no one will be unhappy..

  • @martinmine
    @martinmine 12 років тому

    Probably to keep track of time, you can notice in the beginning he talks really fast then slows down after a while :)

  • @bobreesjr9501
    @bobreesjr9501 6 років тому

    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.

  •  12 років тому

    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:-)

  • @TopShelfization
    @TopShelfization 11 років тому

    "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?

  • @intotheValo
    @intotheValo 12 років тому

    iTunes for windows phone and android.. what a dream

  • @orangedac
    @orangedac 11 років тому

    I'm sure it'll be there....
    as long as the printing press keeps running

  • @sudocatsda1guy390
    @sudocatsda1guy390 4 роки тому +12

    Folks: Let's hear what Apple chief engineer has to say
    WOZ: Apple sucks today

  • @AcidRP
    @AcidRP 12 років тому +1

    15:22
    amazing

  • @HoudalothAli
    @HoudalothAli 2 роки тому

    He doesnt take a break or pause when talking

  • @atturnec360
    @atturnec360 3 роки тому

    Wow…. People like this exist 😭😭😭 thank sweet baby Jesus

  • @Nairuulagch
    @Nairuulagch 8 років тому +4

    Living god talking that is all.

  • @Quintem93
    @Quintem93 11 років тому

    technology is spelled wrong in the title...

  • @soapmeridius
    @soapmeridius 11 років тому +1

    good sense of humor