What Steve Jobs Understood That Our Politicians Don't. As in most other big American cities, it would be hard to walk 100 feet in Washington and not slam into somebody who’s using something that Apple created — an iPhone or an iPad or a Macbook Pro.
And so it’s staggering to contemplate just how little of Steve Jobs’s genius ever permeated the nation’s politics, and how much he understood about modern America that those who govern it still don’t. After all, if you wanted to really get a picture of how the national culture has evolved in the last few decades, particularly in the urban areas that drive economic growth, you could do a lot worse than to study Apple’s string of innovations. The gamification of the presidential election - Ideas@Innovations. Posted at 01:24 PM ET, 08/18/2011 Aug 18, 2011 05:24 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost Then-candidate, Sen.
Barack Obama, D-Ill., checks his BlackBerry in St. Modelling behaviour: Game theory in practice.