Steve Jobs R.I.P. (1955-2011)
- Co-founder of Apple
- Had an idea, that you could have a visual language
- could have a graphical interface
- programming language
- “What You See Is What You Get”
- Regual person owning a computer
- 1982-1984 IBM came out with a PC (First Launch)
- Mainframe Computers — Big powerful computers
- Floppy dics — 8 in. (Later came out with smaller ones)
- Xerox
- Graphical user interface
- Computer Mouse
- Result of the LISA computer and Macintosh was revolutionary
- released in 1984
- Commercial was making fun of IMB which was Jobs’ biggest competitor
- The name “Apple” came from Steve Jobs’ favoirte band, The Beatles
- Planned Obsolescence
- its nonexsistence
- designed things that would be obsolete in a short amount of time
- people were forced to update, and buy the newest technology
- put consumerism back on the map!
- Smart idea Steve Jobs!
- Moore’s Law
- Computers become much more powerful in a short amount of time (Speed and Capacity doubles every year)
- 1929 knew that the economy need to continue on buying things and consuming
- After WWII- women entered the job market
- created a situation in the US where the number of workers essentially doubled
- 2011- There are 1.2 billion jobs available at this time
- 3 billion workers are avaiable
- With the edition of China and India, we have now added 2 billion workers
- We don’t have demand for 3 billion workers
- huge challenge all the citizens
- Coltan
- heat resistant
- Chris Jordan — Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- twice the size of the United States
- 1997 Moore decided to go into the North Pacific Grye
- Google Books and in Scribb
- What are the advantages of a paper document?
- It can be shared easily/distributed
- Easier to read (easy on the eyes)
- Able to make notes
- Hard to ignore
- Tangible
- People are loyal to print (habit)
- Persistant medium (gets passed along by different people)
- First amendment power of Freedom of Press
- Paper doc
- provides documentual evidence
- they can write their own story
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