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In 1984, computing was just leaving the refrigerator,
gigantic-room era.
This Macintosh thing came out.
I brought a Macintosh to MIT.
All the upperclassmen are coming by
and saying what is that?
It's got pictures on it!
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The Mac was reimagining what a computer could be.
There was a smiley face.
There was a sense of humor somehow built in,
like this partner came in
you could go and play with.
Somehow it's so transparent to an experience
that it just enlivens you.
I never thought that I would have a career
as a musician.
I wanted to do everything myself,
and the only way that was possible was with Mac.
Imagine how powerful it was for the kids.
All of a sudden,
they were discovering things by themselves.
It erases the classroom walls.
You could tell there was a vision behind it.
It inspired people to think what's possible,
and that made people do better work.
It seemed to speak the same language
we were speaking.
It looked great,
and it was elegant.
It was naturally where all the designers
and all the image makers would go.
The Mac for me
is the tool to get my ideas out of my head
and collaborate with people to explore fields
that I couldn't otherwise.
We were trying to use this machine
in a really provocative and new way,
and it was just really cool.
Nobody else was doing it.
This is what a pioneer looks like.
Everything I do
could be done in a much more interesting way
using the Macintosh.
All artists are like this.
You give us a new paint box,
and we are going to go crazy.
We are not going to go to sleep,
we are not going to go to eat,
we are just going to go and play with this thing.
Because it's inspiring.
Now everyone uses this one piece
of like remarkable ubiquitous technology.
I really never thought it would be this.
Truly worldwide democratization
of creativity.
The great power of tools like the Macintosh
is precisely that you can't predict
where they're going to go.
The future of creation
is really bringing people together
and bringing ideas together.
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Nobody had any idea 30 years ago
what the world was going to be like now
or how these tools were going to be used.
They are interesting precisely because
we don't know how they are going to be used tomorrow.
And that's the beauty and the power of Macintosh.