Or so you would be led to believe reading all the news reports about candlelit vigils and glowing tributes from celebrities and politicians. Now don't get me wrong it is a tragedy that Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56 and it is true he was a marketing genius and the charismatic boss of Apple but he was not some kind of godlike figure that many of his followers would have you believe. He was no Edison, Brunel or Mandela. He flogged gadgets at a massive premium that the sheeplike public wanted to be seen with... and that was it... so what!
Rant over.
1 comments:
Couldn't agree more. Technological innovations - such as Television, the Saturn V rocket, the computer itself - allow us to do things we could never have done before. In general gadgets simply allow us to do things we already can do, but faster.
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