USA Africa Dialogue Series - Time to rethink Jobs

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• "An iPhone is a machine much like any other: motherboard, modem, microphone, microchip, battery, wire of gold and silver and copper twisting and snaking, the whole assembly arranged under a piece of glass whose surface—coated with an oxide of indium and tin to make it electrically conductive—sparks to life at the touch of a warm-blooded finger. But an iPhone, too, is much more than a machine. The neat ecosystem that hums under its heat-activated glass holds grocery lists and photos and games and jokes and news and books and music and secrets and the voices of loved ones and, quite possibly, every text you've ever exchanged with your best friend. Thought, memory, empathy, the stuff we sometimes shorthand as "the soul": There it all is, zapping through metal whose curves and coils were designed to be held in a human hand.

No matter how many years have passed since 2007, and no matter how many generations of iPhone have come and gone, there is still something, in the machine's anthropological alchemy, a little bit magical. And a little bit mystical. Which is probably why one of the most long-standing clichés about iPhones, and the iPods and the Macs that preceded them, is that they were the first pieces of technology to inspire not just loyalty, but love—love!—among their users. It is probably also why the man who helped to will those products into existence has already been included in history's pantheon of world-changers and paradigm-shifters. Gutenberg, Lovelace, Darwin, Einstein, Edison … and Steve Jobs. People who, as Jobs liked to say, "put a dent in the universe."

And there is very little argument to be had here: That's exactly what Jobs did."

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http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/the-rethinking-of-steve-jobs/403549/

- Ikhide