I'm not even that big a fan of Apple and its products, although I once was. But there's no denying the impact of Steve Jobs and the company he co-founded on the world we live in. In the video below, the Macintosh looks pretty quaint, but it really was a big deal at the time. Later, Jobs lost control of the company and was turned out of it. In his absence it foundered. He came back and turned it into what we know today, performing what would have seemed, ten or twelve years ago, the impossible feat of making Microsoft look sort of irrelevant.
It's a poignant ending: he was a billionaire, with, I have no doubt, all that medical science can do at his service, and yet when the Reaper insists there is only so much human skill can do.
Whatever one thinks the final verdict on techno-capitalist society should or will be, it is full of astonishing things. Steve Jobs was responsible for bringing a lot of them to market, and also for the fact that each becomes obsolete rather quickly. What did he think about those ultimate questions in light of which all technology is insignificant? I don't know. RIP.
Note that the Macintosh in the video seems to have hard drive. It looks like that 3.5 inch floppy is its only external storage. Your mobile phone probably has at least several hundred times more storage than that.
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