Steve Jobs was the founder of Macintosh, now known as Apple. He worked to turn his ideas into reality, and he eventually developed some of the most useful and widely-known technology. Today, millions of people own an Apple device and it can be used to communicate all over the world. In addition, a reliable computer can be used for all sorts of things. One including: easily-accessible research (very convenient, since many people before needed access to a library in order to find information.) I believe that this is a major contribution to society since it has made research extremely accessible.