From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   candycanearter07 wrote:   
   > On 9/14/23 15:53, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >> candycanearter07 wrote:   
   >>> On 9/14/23 13:09, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >>>> It's lost it. It's become just a corporate giant, as IBM was when   
   >>>> Apple launched their "let's be different" campaign way back.   
   >>>   
   >>> So you're saying they became what they swore to destroy?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Yes. But IBM never had a Steve Jobs.   
   >> They never had someone trying to bring beauty into tech; someone with   
   >> a higher vision than science; someone who kept going time and again to   
   >> Japan in search of the meaning of life; someone looking beyond profit   
   >> and comfort.   
   >>   
   >> Ed   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > So a fall from grace..   
   >   
      
   Have you studied history?   
   Political history? Social history? History written by the winners?   
   History written by the losers? History written by academics?   
   Well, I was taught political history. And it's full of charismatic   
   leaders. Alexander of Macedon; Julius Caesar; Napoleon Bonaparte;   
   Winston Churchill. They were inspirational, highly motivated, and people   
   thronged to them in masses. They followed them like sheep, but they   
   weren't sheep, they just recognised a winning genius.   
   Larger than life characters, from one angle almost saints, from another   
   devils.   
      
   History will tell us about the great pioneers of the rise of IT. It will   
   include Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and foremost Steve Jobs.   
      
   Ed   
      
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