Of course we would not think of Marconi. He did not invent radio; that was Nikola Tesla. Steve Jobs was an interesting guy and definitely changed things for most of us in the developed world. With his passing we lose a man of vision.
Now if only he had been able to prevent those stupid iCrap commercials which are so annoying from being made, he would have gotten that Nobel Prize. Not that they mean that much since 2008, but hey, it's still nice to have one... On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Lorn Faulkner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > > > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
