While the world is still in shock at the loss of Steve Jobs, it dawned on me why many of us are not just treating this as the unexpected death of another celebrity or rockstar.  While the world watched as his health continued to decline as he fought against his cancer and though he passed away at the age of 56, his death still comes to us as being premature.  How much more could the global society have benefited if he lived and continued to innovate the world for another twenty years, especially considering what he accomplished in the last twenty years?

His death reminds me so much of others who transcended their mere generation or culture, or local market.  Steve showed the world how to reinvent how we think.  He taught us how to dream.

For many of us, we have just lost this generation’s John Lennon.  This generation’s Martin Luther King Jr.  This generation’s JFK or Thomas Edison. Men who have radically changed our times around the globe, and men who still had so much left to give before they left us.

That is what inspired this small graphical tribute to the great Steve Jobs.  Who gave us the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone… and who taught us to iMagine.