"The solution comes in 1977 in of all places a garage in California. Young people with a passion for shaping the future put the power of the computer in everyone’s hands, and once again we stand on the brink of a new renaissance."
This scene in Spaceship Earth will forever remind many of us of Steve Jobs, regardless of who the character is (or is not) purported to be.
From Andy Dehnart's article in WIRED:
When images of a mysterious figure in a Disney theme-park attraction made their way online late last year, bloggers speculated that the unnamed geek in the garage was supposed to be either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak.
Instead, the scene that illustrates the birth of the personal computer in Epcot's Spaceship Earth ride depicts neither: It is intended to honor all those who worked in garages to fuel the technology revolution, according to the attraction's designers.
"We all looked at that scene as an homage to ... the innovation (that) happened in garages in California," Disney Imagineer and show writer Pam Fisher said, citing the humble roots of companies like Hewlett-Packard and Apple. "There's a lot of this notion of young people in Northern California (working) on kitchen tables, in garages, making the personal computer possible."
When the attraction, which is housed in the Florida theme park's iconic geodesic sphere, reopened for previews in December, the model in the garage scene was first identified by bloggers as one of Apple's founders. Theme park blog Lifthill noted that "the figure is dressed much like Wozniak was in a photo taken in the garage during the period," following the distant creations blog's suggestion that the figure "looks a whole lot like Apple founder Steve Jobs."
Source: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2008/01/epcot?currentPage=all
This scene has become an - albeit unintentional - homage to Jobs in the wake of his passing.
This scene in Spaceship Earth will forever remind many of us of Steve Jobs, regardless of who the character is (or is not) purported to be.
From Andy Dehnart's article in WIRED:
When images of a mysterious figure in a Disney theme-park attraction made their way online late last year, bloggers speculated that the unnamed geek in the garage was supposed to be either Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak.
Instead, the scene that illustrates the birth of the personal computer in Epcot's Spaceship Earth ride depicts neither: It is intended to honor all those who worked in garages to fuel the technology revolution, according to the attraction's designers.
"We all looked at that scene as an homage to ... the innovation (that) happened in garages in California," Disney Imagineer and show writer Pam Fisher said, citing the humble roots of companies like Hewlett-Packard and Apple. "There's a lot of this notion of young people in Northern California (working) on kitchen tables, in garages, making the personal computer possible."
When the attraction, which is housed in the Florida theme park's iconic geodesic sphere, reopened for previews in December, the model in the garage scene was first identified by bloggers as one of Apple's founders. Theme park blog Lifthill noted that "the figure is dressed much like Wozniak was in a photo taken in the garage during the period," following the distant creations blog's suggestion that the figure "looks a whole lot like Apple founder Steve Jobs."
Source: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2008/01/epcot?currentPage=all
This scene has become an - albeit unintentional - homage to Jobs in the wake of his passing.
