It really exemplifies the culture change from Steve's obsession with the INTERSECTION of humanities and science.
Silicon Valley on a mission
Silicon Valley on a mission
Jobs' death is truly tragic in the context that Apple - and by extension, the rest of the tech world - could have gone in a very different direction if he were still around. He would probably be screaming his head off at the idea of generative AI.
Seriously and sincerely, I'd like to hear a dozen definitions of what people think that "mission" is in 2024.
I think we long departed from "making the world a better place". And yet the change simply cannot be explained by greed, money, or obsession with growth.
Surely a lot of the venture capitalists that frequent this forum must be as confused as the next person if they still hold on to the ideal of "doing good with money".
What I see is the rise of a terrifying quasi-religious anti-humanist cult with overtones of masochism and self-hatred (of human life).
I'm no big fan of Steve Jobs, but clearly he would be horrified by many of the anti-human sentiments expressed daily in forums like this.
Is it too late to redefine digital technology as humane, and return to the roots of SV [0] ?
Too bad it's a big club and everybody here won't be in it, eh.
There is some uncomfortable truth in this.
Those who identify with technology, and take for granted being its masters, controllers and benefactors, end up the most disappointed.
The hoi polloi are happily indifferent to the cargo cult of shiny stuff that comes and goes, which they buy because their friend got one.
But those intelligent enough to know what we could have had, what's possible and what's lost, will feel betrayed by larger forces that nobody controls, whatever "big club" you imagine yourself in.
It's one thing for a man to lose to lose his faith. It's something else when a priest does.