What did he do tho change the world? Consider this. After I finished my master's degree I was awarded a fellowship to develop a computer based version of a stuttering therapy system. Because of an Apple grant, we were given 25 Mac Pluses (OK I'm dating myself here), a couple of Mac II servers and SCSI based hard drives for each machine. Because of the Mac's capacities as a multimedia device the development of the computer based stuttering therapy system ended up being very successful. We tried to duplicate this using PC's but it turned out not to be cost effective.
My followup research showed that after therapy almost all the people going through the program did not stutter at the end of the program. The two year followup showed that over 75% maintained that fluency. I cannot say about the entire world, but for the world of these people the Mac certainly changed their world for the better. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Medic <hofme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I know I'm not part of the popular crowd by asking this... but other than > make some cool hardware what did Jobs really do to "change the world?" > Everyone keeps saying he changed the way we live, but I don't see it. Maybe > for super dedicated fanbois, but for the average Joe? What did it do? You > have a cool phone and a cool mp3 player, but so what? If everyone was using > non-iPod mp3 players or blackberry's how would life be any less? > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> C. Hatton Humphrey <chumph...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > http://xkcd.com/961/ >> > >> > As obscure as it is, once I "got it" I thought it was a beautiful thing. >> > >> >> Very cool. The guy did so much to change so many things for the >> better and was such an innovator ... and died before his time you can >> see how religion gets started >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343309 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
