Apple Pioneer Dies at 61
Published on March 01 2005
This article describes the life of Jef Raskin who is generally regarded as the father of the Macintosh computer. Jef was a far reaching guy who lived at the intersections Johansson talks about in the Medici Effect. He was the inspiration who helped Apple combine graphics, human interface design, simpliciy and computers. He was a leader in thinking about the "Humane Interface" between people and machines.
What has Jef Raskin got to do with corporate universities? Absolutly nothing in a direct sense. Yet, it was the spirit he embodied of combining vision, experimentation, art, music, design and technology that leads me to beleive the CU world needs a Jef Raskin or two.
We need to learn how to more effectively embed learning in our day-to-day work and build processes and systems that require no learning. We need to experiment with how music, art, language and action can be combined and used to accelerate learning, improve the speed of adoption, and increase retention of knowledge. This kind of thinking is what Raskin was all about.
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