This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] OT Re: RIP Steve Jobs

I think we'd agree that Jobs popularized, productized, and promoted
such a change. Now that's a big deal; perhaps a bigger deal than
coming up with some clever ideas. Think, Marx vs. Lenin, Trostky, Mao,
etc. Or Locke and other Continental philosophers and The Declaration
of Independence.

But for the paradigm shift you're talking about, I'd attribute a lot
of credit to Doug Englebart and his team at SRI, the gang at Xerox
PARC, and Tim Berners-Lee.

Though in the end, trying to rank Jobs' position in the technology/
culture pantheon is kinda silly. Like thinking the Nobel committee
really does find and honor the best writers, or the Oscars go to the
absolute best films of the year.

Jobs is definitely up there. And I'm surprised by how sad I am that
he's no longer down here.

Jim
Jim Feeley
jfeeley@gmail.com

On Oct 6, 2011, at 7:12 AM, David Dodson wrote:

>
> And yet could it not be said that Jobs DID invent something new;
> could it not be said that he did, in fact, invent a very specfiic
> and paradigm-shifting ethos? Could it not be said that this ethos
> became a way of regarding technology that fundamentally changed not
> just our relationship with that technology, but with each other, as
> well?
>
> David