NARRATOR: Houston, Texas, July 20, 1969.
At NASA Mission Control Center, the massive IBM System/360
Model 75 computer, which boasts processing power
of 16.6 million instructions per second
and up to 8 megabytes of main memory,
is employed to accomplish the greatest feat in human history,
putting a man on the moon.
People across the world marveled at
this technological achievement.
But incredibly, only six decades later,
a handheld device weighing less than half a pound
dwarfs the total technology NASA possessed in 1969.
Today's smartphone contains a staggering 1 million
times the computing power used to carry out the moon landing.
What we had when they went to the moon
is like nothing compared to what an average teenager
carries around now.
I mean, the kind of computing power,
the ability to access information,
the ability to reach people, it's
an astonishing technological achievement.
You can only imagine what's going
to happen 30 years from now.
What we think is so advanced is going to be so not advanced.
NARRATOR: According to ancient-astronaut theorists,
at specific points in history, extraterrestrials
have influenced certain individuals to allow humanity
to make major leaps forward.
And they propose that this has continued
up until modern times.
As evidence, they point to the visionary
who jump-started the microcomputer
revolution, Steve Jobs.
KARA SWISHER: Steve Jobs was one of the greatest
visionaries in Silicon Valley.
The idea of what he was doing is how you popularize computing.
A lot of people who were early in computing
didn't think about people using them,
and he managed to deliver into the hands of consumers
a device that was usable.
It was intuitive.
It was easy to use.
It was easy to understand.
And that is not a small thing.
In the simplicity and the beauty of it,
he made something that was just perfect.
NARRATOR: Steve Jobs and his team
of engineers at Apple harnessed technology
that connected society digitally and put
all the world's knowledge literally
at mankind's fingertips.
But the seeds of this technological revolution
were planted in 1973 when the 19-year-old college
student dropped out of school.
Jobs was attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon
when he, along with one of Apple's first employees, Daniel
Kottke, made a decision that would change not only
the course of their lives but ultimately
the course of humanity.
Fueled by his desire to find spiritual enlightenment,
Steve Jobs traveled to India, with Daniel
following a few months later.
Together, they discovered a Hindu
guru known as Haidakhan Baba.
He was discovered at about the age of 18 doing yoga in a cave,
but there are legends going back that the same figure
had appeared all the way back into the 1800s.
NARRATOR: Haidakhan Baba claimed that he
had no mother or father.
But who was this character who had no known history
before the age of 18 and was said to have
manifested out of thin air?
He professed that he was an immortal being.
LAYNE LITTLE: Steve Jobs did spend some time with them.
Haidakhan Baba actually gave him an initiation
by giving him a spiritual name.
This is a traditional kind of initiation.
So they were formally initiated by this guru.
Babaji had said that he was a celestial being who had come
to earth to help enlighten our planet
and to advance us forward.
And we have to wonder, is it possible
that Steven Jobs was being influenced
telepathically by an extraterrestrial entity named
Babaji?