There were two big events today. At 10 AM, Steve Jobs delivered a presentation that detailed Apple\u2019s newest thing, a touch-screen tablet called the iPad.<\/p>\n
And then, at 6 PM, Barack Obama delivered a speech detailing the state of the United States and the progress and difficulties we\u2019ve gone through in the past year.<\/p>\n
Were they that different, these two events? Both were highly anticipated. There were potentially high hopes that both might give us insight into a way to make our lives better in the near-future.<\/p>\n
And reaction to both events afterwards was quite mixed. The iPad was not revolutionary, in the way that some thought it might be, but there are still many that yearn to get their hands on it. Likewise, Obama\u2019s speech was not \u2013 could not in this fiercely politically divided time of ours \u2013 able to bring forth anything other than a mixed response.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s because, in the end, Steve and Barack were trying to do the same thing. They\u2019re trying to get us to empathize with them, to see the world that they do and to dream the same dream. They want us to see the potential that they know the iPad has while overlooking its shortcomings. They want us to see the benefit that health care reform will give the country while overlooking the political hoops we may have to jump through to get it. They want us to try to understand that it\u2019s hard<\/em>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to create products that invent new markets and revolutionize the way humans interact with technology. It\u2019s hard to run our country. \u201cBut,\u201d say Steve and Barack, \u201chere\u2019s what we came up with. And we think it might be what you\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There were two big events today. At 10 AM, Steve Jobs delivered a presentation that detailed Apple\u2019s newest thing, a touch-screen tablet called the iPad. And then, at 6 PM, Barack Obama delivered a speech detailing the state of the United States and the progress and difficulties we\u2019ve gone through in the past year. Were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[88,315,314],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-apple","tag-empathy","tag-politics","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}