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'A Bicycle for the Mind'

Where have computers brought us since the days of Steve Jobs?

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James Gurney
Jul 06, 2025
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Steve Jobs wanted the personal computer to be like a “bicycle for the mind.”

(Sketch of my son Dan doing homework on our computer workstation in 2000.)

It felt like that at first. It carried us to amazing places, introduced us to new people, showed us to new things. In many ways it amplified our capacitie and empowered us.

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