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Steve Jobs will be forgotten in 50 years (inquisitr.com)
3 points by sparknlaunch on June 10, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



In the UK in large cities, you will come across Carnegie clinics with foundation stones mentioning Andrew Carnegie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie

Those clinics formed a basic health service for poor people before the NHS came into being. The Carnegie Trust is still there,

http://carnegieuktrust.org.uk/who-we-are

but I admit Andrew Carnegie may no longer be a household name.

I suspect Jobs will not be a household name in 2062, but that anyone who looks into the 'wild west era' of personal computers will find out plenty, as will anyone who visits a museum.


Andrew Carnegie's actions saved lives. Steve Jobs sold shiny tat.

You're right - he'll be in some museums; increasingly few over the years, inevitably tending towards one: "The iLearn Institute of Advanced Sycophancy".


This, whatever you think of Jobs, is trolling and has no place here.


Even sooner than that. If you aren't in the textbooks, then you are history.




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