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MothBalls · 10-19-11, 03:46 PM

I don't see what all the fuss is myself. I don't think Jobs changed the world. I don't think Apple did either.

Ford, Wright Brothers, Edison, Tesla, many more to this list, they changed the world. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley, and Gilbert Hyatt made Jobs world possible, yet they don't get credit for it.

Nowadays new inventions are made by large corporations with huge R&D budgets. Most of those things are just improvements on existing technologies. I really can't think of the last invention that truly "changed the world".

Except maybe this one;

10-19-11, 03:46 PM	#8
MothBalls Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,012 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	I don't see what all the fuss is myself. I don't think Jobs changed the world. I don't think Apple did either. Ford, Wright Brothers, Edison, Tesla, many more to this list, they changed the world. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley, and Gilbert Hyatt made Jobs world possible, yet they don't get credit for it. Nowadays new inventions are made by large corporations with huge R&D budgets. Most of those things are just improvements on existing technologies. I really can't think of the last invention that truly "changed the world". Except maybe this one;