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@RL_Dane Steve Jobs supposedly claimed that he intended his personal computer to be a bicycle for the mind — But what he really sold us was a train for the mind, which goes only between where rails and stations have been laid down by armies of laborers.
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 @neauoire @RL_Dane I remember it all made sense when I watched the actual words in context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8 What he's getting from "bicycle" is just efficiency. So of course when he could get to a car and then a train, he did. It's just that he'd have gotten laughed out of the room back in 1990 if he'd claimed his computer was like a car. But he'd be mystified by us wanting to continue using bicycles 30 years later. Of course people want more and more efficiency! What are you, a commie? |
@neauoire
Yes, and very well put.
His hatred of all things open was pretty awful.
I read his firstborn daughter's autobio, "Small Fry." It was pretty unnerving.