When you flip on the radio, do you think of Marconi?
Apt analogy ... and fitting. The way the world views, listens to and/or transmits massive amounts of varying information is in no small part due to Steve Jobs. His passing was expected for quite awhile but it was still a sad shocker to see it had occurred. God bless him. ________________________________ From: Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> To: feistfans-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 9:07 PM Subject: Steve Jobs I'm a Mac head, and writing this on a PowerMac QuadCore that has many times more power than what NASA used to put men on the moon. I've got an iPhone 4. I've got an iPad. I've used mostly Apple computers since the days of the Apple ][e and the Mac SE. Steve Jobs was more than merely a really smart guy who invented stuff. There are lots of very smart men and women in many fields. Jobs never won the Nobel Prize, right. Or a McArthur Grant. Genius is a word often tossed around. But Jobs didn't cure cancer. He didn't bring an end to international violence. He didn't end hunger in the world. Let me tell you what he did. He changed how we see our world, interact with it, and did it in a way we take for granted. When you flip on the lights, do you think of Edison? When you pick up the phone, do you think of Bell. When you flip on the radio, do you think of Marconi? When you go for a drive, do you think of Ford? When you turn on your computer, do you think of Steve Jobs? No, but that's who he was. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
