tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-801613569339727314.post6266848086347727728..comments2024-01-15T14:43:29.749-08:00Comments on The Village Elliot: Steve Jobs, an American Legend.The Village Elliot.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04067573537341001185noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-801613569339727314.post-77902204232881164832011-10-14T10:14:43.775-07:002011-10-14T10:14:43.775-07:00Hi Steven, thanks for your insights. I think tha...Hi Steven, thanks for your insights. I think that Jobs can take credit for inspiring the industrial base of the microelectronics revolution, and the military was able to take advantage of it. I'm told that the aircraft of the USSR were flying with vacuum tubes at a time when we were using microproocessors. This is not because they didn't want the same things that we did, but without the consumer-driven electronics revolution, there was no base for such products in the old USSR..The Village Elliot.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04067573537341001185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-801613569339727314.post-79270215784352936212011-10-09T09:03:54.336-07:002011-10-09T09:03:54.336-07:00There is no doubt that Steve Jobs played a major r...There is no doubt that Steve Jobs played a major role in the fundamental shift of American society and indeed, global society, in computers, animation, music, and communication; in short, in the way we live today. A large part of that was the i-Pod, which sold 100 million units in six years and solidified Apple as a commercial force to be reckoned with after it's brush with bankruptcy in the 1990s. So I'm a little surprised it wasn't mentioned. <br /><br />The US and the USSR had already emerged as world superpowers before Jobs and Wozniak started Apple. USA and USSR superpower status was cemented in the 1950s and solidified in the 1960s. In the 1960s and 1970s, the two nuclear super-powers implemented the doctrine of mutual assured destruction, or MAD: the ability of either superpower to annihilate the world's population many times over with its nuclear arsenal. <br /><br />It is possible that Apple contributed to the acceleration of the US technology that passed the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s, although Jobs was an innovator, not an inventor of applications useful to the military. Xerox PARC and DARPA are far more responsible for inventing computer technology than Jobs and Apple, Inc. But Jobs made computers far more user friendly to the general public and did as much as anybody to spawn the computer generation, and later animation, music, and communication. However, I think that it is only recently that Apple and the military have entered into any type of deal making (http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/06/apple-in-the-military-officially-and-unofficially/).stevendmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14151534467402589880noreply@blogger.com