Born on August 11, 1950, Woz, as many people know him, is the other half of the Apple block. Although Steve Jobs has been the visible head of the brand from its birth to its current stardom, Wozniak has been the soul and an essential figure in the birth and development of Apple.
Back in 1971 Steve Wozniak told his namesake Jobs the intention of creating a computer for personal use, a device that everyone could have in their homes and not just companies for the workplace. In fact, before discussing it with Jobs himself, he explained it to his Hewlett Packard bosses, who rejected the idea of creating something like that because they didn’t see any kind of future for it.
Thus, Wozniak’s idea along with Jobs’s vision of the future morphed into Apple Computer in 1976, beginning with the creation of the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. It was already official, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had become the fathers of PCs (from the English term Personal Computer, personal computer in Spanish). The Apple II became the best-selling computer of the 1970s and early 1980s , and for many it was the first personal computer in history .
On February 6, 1985 Wozniak would definitely leave the company he founded with Jobs to advance other technological developments. Steve Wozniak received the National Medal of Technology in 1985 , in addition to being an honorary doctorate from several universities around the world, such as North Carolina State University, Kettering University, Michigan State University, Concordia University of Montreal Canada, etc.
“I pray that Apple and Google are partners in the future,” Wozniak explained in one of his last public statements. And many think in the same way as him, that the most benefited from this alliance would be the world of technology itself. The next appointment with this visionary of computers will take place in Madrid, at the Congress of Brilliant Minds El Ser Creativo.
