Steve Jobs - Steven Paul Jobs - died at the age of 56 on October 5, 2011. He was one of the three founders of Apple, and it is to him the merit that this name is known today to anyone who is related to computers or mobile devices. Perhaps soon a monument to Jobs will appear in St. Petersburg.
The Progress IT Foundation is implementing the idea of creating a monument to Steve Jobs. It was created by a group of companies united in the "Western European Financial Union" with its head office in St. Petersburg. These companies conduct business mainly in the North-West region of Russia, and the Progress IT Foundation was created by them to popularize the business in the field of information technology and to draw the attention of young people to the professions of IT specialists in this region. Therefore, the monument to Steve Jobs, one of the most successful pioneers of commercial IT projects, was one of the first projects of this fund. And the regional orientation of the parent company determined the location of the future monument - it should be St. Petersburg. In addition, according to representatives of the fund, it is the northern capital that is the center for the development of information technologies in the country. There are certainly grounds for such an assessment. In addition to the fact that St. Petersburg students regularly bring rewards to the country from international competitions of programmers, it was in this city that the VKontakte social network, a domestic analogue of Facebook, was created and implemented.
It is curious that a similar idea this year occurred to the students of Odessa and was supported by the city authorities. If the creators of the monument in St. Petersburg are just holding a competition for the best idea, then the inhabitants of Odessa already know what their two-meter memorial should look like and where it will be installed.
The interest of youth in the person of Steve Jobs is not so much attracted by commercial success - it can perhaps be considered a concentrated expression of students in its modern sense. In the life of Steve, the son of foreign students in the United States who refused the child, there were school failures, which, thanks to only one talented teacher, were transformed into an early transfer to two classes up. There were clandestine manufacture of hacker devices, psychedelics and hippie communities, a passion for Buddhism with a trip to India, work in the developing IT companies Atari and Hewlett-Packard. And only then (April 1, 1976) did the history of Apple Computer begin, in which Steve Jobs came and went twice and both times made it the world leader in information technology.
