Steve Jobs - Bend reality

Jobs's (in)famous ability to push people to do the impossible was dubbed by colleagues his Reality Distortion Field, after an episode of Star Trek in which aliens create a convincing alternative reality through sheer mental force. An early example was when Jobs was on the night shift at Atari and pushed Steve Wozniak to create a game called Breakout. Woz said it would take months but Jobs stared at him and insisted he could do it in four days. Woz knew that was impossible but he ended up doing it ... READ MORE

Biographer Walter Isaacson identified 13 aspects of Steve Jobs and CSNZ has pleasure in presenting the seventh Bend reality.

Released by the Australian Financial Review - 7 June 2012