October 5 marks the five-year anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs. And, despite never having met him in person, I miss him dearly. He was an inspiration to so many, myself included. Jobs was a visionary innovator, a person by whose very life, the world was brought closer together. I can't help but wonder and imagine how this genius inventor, of Middle Eastern descent, would view the social and political climate we are living in today.

Jobs was a uniquely creative genius. As Jobs' biographer, Walter Issacson, described him, he was an "entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing."

Despite being the consummate businessman and building a technology empire unlike anything the world had ever seen, Jobs remained a product of his counterculture roots, and he seemed to hold on to the optimistic and transcendent ideals and principles that he was raised with as a child of the '60s. Case in point, he told reporters that taking the mind-altering psychedelic LSD was one of the most important things he ever did in his life. And, as his death drew near, he shared with his biographer some of his favorite music, songs that had continued to influence him throughout his entire life. Scrolling through his iPod during his last days revealed a person still deeply moved by revolutionary artists and metaphysical lyricists such as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, and The Doors.