Steven Jobs receives much of the credit for being a visionary in this case. While large corporations such as IBM saw a limited use for small, in-home computers, Jobs saw its application as unlimited and he created the software approach to realize that vision. At one point during the 1980s corporate America predicted no more than a couple of hundred thousand PCs in use by the end of the century Jobs saw millions in use and he was right. Where the two “visions” differ was in the interpretation of utility. Corporate America saw the application in terms of functional use: to solve problems, control servo-mechanisms, to serve scientists and technicians. But Jobs saw the PC as a communications tool, as a tool to assist the creative process in writing, design, education and now entertainment.