On 08/26/2011 05:44 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj<vajradhatu@...> wrote: >> On Aug 25, 2011, at 10:24 AM, cardemaister wrote: >>> ... that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, according to Wikipedia! >>> >>> Well, I guess almost everyone knew that already... >> Sri Jobs actually took off, long ago, in search of himself to >> India, backpacking and hitchhiking around that country. The >> trip culminated with him being taken high to the hills above >> Rishikesh and having his head shaved by his guru. He returned >> to America with a shaved head and dressed in Indian clothing. >> From that silence sequentially unfolded the Macintosh... > Plus a little help from having stolen the entire > concept from Xerox Parc labs. :-)
And how Xerox "Fumbled the Future" in the book "Fumbling the Future": http://www.amazon.com/Fumbling-Future-Invented-Personal-Computer/dp/1583482660 Of course much of today's GUI concept came from the work of Doug Engelbart at SRI circa 1968: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
