Apple Foundation

Broad Parallels with Apple

Apple and sci-fi go together like pork and beans. But an Apple send-up of Foundation in particular is a great fit simply because both feature geniuses who were visionaries and made long-range plans before they died -- and the outcome of whose plans were/are under constant speculation and skepticism even as they play out.

• When Steve Jobs died, he left years' worth of plans for future products to "safeguard Apple's future". (Some note however that four years may not be unusually long for a product roadmap.)
• Steve Jobs also planned for Apple's next-generation campus, Apple Campus 2: a futuristic, ring-shaped building containing 2,800,000 square feet for 13,000 employees.