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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.




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