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RIP Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Dervacumen:
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--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 08, 2011, 12:17:15 am ---I had a science teacher that just went on and on about how his grandfather invented the modern lightbulb. He had won a Nobel prize for something about surface tension of liquids. I've googled it to death and all I can figure was the guy had -something- to do with the coiled tungsten filament. Point being that reality is complex and boring and it's a lot easier to assign credit to one person and get on with our lives.
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You obviously haven't watched "Flash of Genius" then, or if you did, you didn't understand it's message. Giving people proper credit is EVERYTHING, because, let's face it, about the only way a human being can make a lasting impact on society that will be remembered after their death is through invention.
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Or mass murder. Those types tend to get a lot of attention too.
Dervacumen:
So I was talking and having popcorn with a friend who works at Apple HQ, and she said the security was going crazy because they were overwhelmed withl all the people coming to Apple HQ just because they felt like they needed too. She said there were flowers and memorials everywhere, and it was basically nuts. Then her mother added that a lot of people so identified with Steve Jobs that they are having the same reaction as those who followed and lost John Lennon, and I trust her voice because she grew up at that time... That surprised me a bit because it seemed out of place, but I guess for many the reaction is the same. Steve Jobs married computing and self like no other just as some feel John Lennon did with music and self.
That's just beyond my experience with Apple. I work 7 miles from Apple HQ and I have no compelling reason to deal with or take part in that chaos.
jimfath:
His inspired words at Stanford in 2005 are a great read. It's a speech that's been referred to a lot this week and IMO lives up to the hype. It is better to read it than to see the video though. I will try to remember him that way. His story, his message, and especially his closing wishes/remarks are what I will try to remember about him. He was able to accomplish quite a lot in his short time on this earth.
Jobs was an American success story with very few contemporaries. A lot of the fawning and hyperbole you are hearing from people this week are, at times, obnoxious. But they are also just reflections of the energy more over the marketing of products he helped create. While he didn't have as big an impact as Edison, he certainly shared the qualities AND the flaws of the man. I understand the desire some people might have to make the comparison. I will say that Jobs was WAY better at understanding his customers but Edison has him beat in many departments. Hands down.
So while I've been rolling my eyes quite a bit, (flowers and candle light vigils at the Apple store??... c'mon! Really?!) I will still, unbegrudgingly, tip my hat to the man that was the driving force behind all of it. His force is still here. However annoying I may find it at times. He was able to get non computer people excited about computers and push the envelope of what tech can do and how you can use it.
smalltownguy:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 08, 2011, 12:24:56 am ---You obviously haven't watched "Flash of Genius" then, or if you did, you didn't understand it's message. Giving people proper credit is EVERYTHING, because, let's face it, about the only way a human being can make a lasting impact on society that will be remembered after their death is through invention.
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Huh?
What did these people 'invent?'
Jesus?
Ghandi?
Mother Theresa?
Hitler?
Saddam?
Bin Laden?
Blanka:
--- Quote from: amendonz on October 07, 2011, 06:18:23 pm ---if either of the 2 should have fans its woz by far.
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He was in the Hague last year. Very cool guy! Loved his speech there.
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