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Tech leaders from this era will not be remembered well.
by Venn1 3mo ago
Tech leaders from this era will not be remembered well.
- dragonelite 3mo agoThere's not much good to remember them by for the past decade they have been implementing a global panopticon system etc. At least in the 1990s and 2000s it felt they were doing some good stuff for humanity. But the 2010s and 2020s the masked pretty much slipped.
- krunck 3mo agoThey knew all along how their companies could profit from surveillance and propaganda.
- LeFantome 3mo agoThat is a bold prediction
- Larrikin 3mo agoNo it is not.
- happytoexplain 3mo agoIt doesn't seem like a stretch. I don't know what you mean. (You may disagree with the opinion of course, but "bold" is a counterintuitive adjective here)
- mulr00ney 3mo agoHow so?
- ares623 3mo agoThere's two opposing forces at work. Everyone wants to be Steve Jobs, and no one wants to be Steve Ballmer. So the only choice is to go to the extreme to stay as far away from the other end as possible.
- layer8 3mo agoI'd take Steve Ballmer over most of the current big-tech CEOs, to be honest.
- jameson 3mo agoI wonder which spectrum Steve Jobs would be on if he was still alive to this day.
- happytoexplain 3mo agoHate him or not, Steve Jobs understood humans. He spoke and behaved as a human. He was flawed and may be considered "cringey" now, but I think he'd be liked better than the rest.
- pmdr 3mo agoHis Apple keynotes conveyed a sense of magic, for example demonstrating pinch to zoom on the iPhone and pulling a MacBook Air out of a manila envelope. And something he'd be angry because things didn't go as planned. These pre-recorded keynotes we get nowadays are just bland and AI-generated.
- dgrin91 3mo ago"You're holding it wrong" would beg to differ, not to mention the many flops he had (remember the magic mouse?). He was smart & very successful. I wouldn't call him relatable to most humans.
- basisword 3mo agoSteve Jobs? The guy who was adopted by working class parents, a hippy, with a Syrian immigrant father? I think he might view the world slightly differently than the guys born into wealth, who went to Ivy League schools, and who all seemingly share the same total inability to understand ordinary human beings.
- iAMkenough 3mo agoAs opposed to the current guy who gifted a custom 24K gold plaque to the current administration, after being raised by a shipyard worker and pharmacist and attending a public land-grant research university in Alabama. When it comes to business, I think Jobs would grovel at the feet of Trump just as much as Cook has.
- penguin_booze 3mo agoI think you underestimate what the human attention span has become.
- xnx 3mo agoBig difference between owners like Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk vs. Sundar Pichai.