first edition
by Jobs, Steve
[Technology][AI] Jobs, Steve. Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words. [San Francisco]: The Steve Jobs Archive, 2023. First edition. Scarce hardcover issue produced privately and exclusively for internal distribution to Apple and Disney employees. Color and black-and-white photographs throughout. Bound in smooth gray boards with a tipped-in Polaroid-style image of a young Jobs on the front cover. No dustjacket, as issued. A carefully curated collection of Steve Jobs’s speeches, correspondence, and reflections, this posthumous volume offers intimate insight into the mind of one of the most influential technologists of the 20th century. With an introduction by Laurene Powell Jobs, the book contextualizes Jobs’s philosophies on creativity, design, and technology as urgent and enduring guideposts amid the rise of artificial intelligence and its accompanying ethical disruptions.
Compiled by the Steve Jobs Archive, this volume traces Jobs’s voice across his evolution—from a spiritually curious youth in Silicon Valley, to the pioneering founder of Apple, and ultimately, a deeply reflective figure confronting mortality. The selections emphasize his persistent belief in the potential of individuals to create tools that empower and elevate the human condition. Featuring never-before-published photos, handwritten notes, and internal Apple correspondence, the book is divided into three chronological sections (1976–1985, 1985–1996, 1996–2011) and enriched by reflections on key turning points, such as his ousting from Apple and later triumphs with the Macintosh, Pixar, and the iPhone. Laurene Powell Jobs’s introduction explicitly casts the volume as both a tribute and a caution: a call to center technological innovation in moral clarity and personal meaning at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to erode those foundations. “Steve believed that making something wonderful,” she writes, “was not just a matter of aesthetic or function—but a moral act.” As generative AI reshapes labor, expression, and autonomy, this work reaffirms Jobs’s conviction that human intuition and empathy must anchor innovation. Interior bright and clean; binding tight and square. Near fine condition overall. Not commercially available. This hardcover printing is a deeply personal counterpoint to the dehumanizing potential of current technological trends. (Inventory #: 22126)
Compiled by the Steve Jobs Archive, this volume traces Jobs’s voice across his evolution—from a spiritually curious youth in Silicon Valley, to the pioneering founder of Apple, and ultimately, a deeply reflective figure confronting mortality. The selections emphasize his persistent belief in the potential of individuals to create tools that empower and elevate the human condition. Featuring never-before-published photos, handwritten notes, and internal Apple correspondence, the book is divided into three chronological sections (1976–1985, 1985–1996, 1996–2011) and enriched by reflections on key turning points, such as his ousting from Apple and later triumphs with the Macintosh, Pixar, and the iPhone. Laurene Powell Jobs’s introduction explicitly casts the volume as both a tribute and a caution: a call to center technological innovation in moral clarity and personal meaning at a time when artificial intelligence threatens to erode those foundations. “Steve believed that making something wonderful,” she writes, “was not just a matter of aesthetic or function—but a moral act.” As generative AI reshapes labor, expression, and autonomy, this work reaffirms Jobs’s conviction that human intuition and empathy must anchor innovation. Interior bright and clean; binding tight and square. Near fine condition overall. Not commercially available. This hardcover printing is a deeply personal counterpoint to the dehumanizing potential of current technological trends. (Inventory #: 22126)
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