With the death of Steve Jobs last week, we have all been remembering him as a great innovator. He brought us true smartphones, Pixar, the Graphical User Interface, the personal computer, created the tablet market, revolutionized how we listen to music and the list goes on.

Not only is he responsible for these works, he also inspired countless other innovations. Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Bill Gates are probably the three people that have had the most influence in how we live our lives today.

Steve Jobs was able to amass a cult like following of Mac users, but these are not the people that he truly led into the next era of history.

He, along with other giants like Wozniak and Gates, ushered in the information age by making it possible for others to innovate. Their inspiration of the masses of nerds was the spark of the information revolution we are currently experiencing.

Good leaders gain followers, while great leaders gain leaders.

Steve Jobs did just that. I am confident that his work and his direct contribution to our lives today will continue to inspire and excite people about technology.

In my otherwise free time, I mentor a FIRST robotics team. FIRST is a global organization dedicated to inspiring and exciting high school students about technology. FIRST’s leadership dreams of a world where we revere people like Steve Jobs the way others revere Michael Jackson.

I have dedicated a significant portion of my life to contributing to this goal, and the public reaction to Jobs’ death gives me confidence that the culture change that FIRST seeks is in progress.

Now that homes generally have multiple PCs and we all seem to have smartphones, we can order pizza over the Internet and have a video chat with friends half way across the world. It is easier than ever to forget that 30 years ago, almost none of this existed.

I recently watched the original Power Ranger’s movie with several friends when we saw it pop up on Netflix. We were amazed by the cultural changes that have happened even in the last 15 years — changes that have occurred as we grew up.

When that movie came out, I was 6-years-old. In it, they used seemingly magical communicators and rode around in roller blades with Sony Walkmen.

Today, the magical communicators exclusive to the Power Rangers have been demystified by the cell phone that is accessible to everyone.

Sony Walkmen have been replaced with mp3 players and roller blades have died out faster than any other outdoor activity (thank God).

It is astounding to see the rapid revolution that has taken place thanks to the inspiration provided by Steve Jobs and the industry’s leaders.

The way to remember him best is not to go out and buy the new iPhone the instant it comes out, but rather to continue innovating and continue inspiring the technological revolution.