Thread by @RavikanthS_

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MOHAN GURUSWAMY:

Steve Jobs was a wonderful story.

A story like this can happen only in America, and San Francisco in particular. It is a story of a business

pioneer, a comeback kid and a battle against Cancer. He was truly a man of our times. Which also means that he was an image manufactured to hold our interest and warm our hearts.

I don't think he was a Thomas Alva Edison who invented the incandescent

bulb that changed our lives by allowing us to use the night to work, read and play. By demanding electricity the little bulb demanded supply of electricity on a mass scale. That changed society world over.

Henry Ford revolutionized production and changed the system of

manufacturing for ever. The world learned to make complex and sophisticated goods cheaply and efficiently.

Ed Noyce invented the transistor and that was the basic building block of the electronic revolution.

Charles Babbage developed the mechanical calculating machine and

that was followed up by the development and design of the first computer at the University of Pennsylvania by Bill Mauchly and group. Thomas Watson at IBM was the first to mass produce computers and we know how that changed the world.

Portable and private music first came to us thanks to Akio Morita at Sony.

Steve Jobs didn't invent anything. He didn't build anything first. But what he did, he did with style and panache. He catered to the user and to his/her sense of aesthetics.

He also created a heroic persona with his brilliant personal story, and controlled how it played out. Jobs was a job well done.

I think in time, we will realize that he left little imprint on society. He too will be just another success story like the

Beatles or the racehorse Sea Biscuit or Warren Buffet or even Steven Spielberg. Or even Che Guevara who is now merely an iconic statement and not of achievement.

Jobs was an image, but not a Titan like Mark Zuckerberg. Face Book has really

changed our lives by networking a large number of people and allowing them to communicate with each other so swiftly and inexpensively. It takes democracy to a next level. Zuckerberg may be a most disagreeable person and may have even stolen the idea from his early

colleagues at Harvard. Even so his contribution cannot be underestimated.

Tim Berners Lee invented the Internet. How many people know about him? We see a vacant space here and even Al Gore tried to occupy it by claiming to be a founder of Internet.

But Steve Jobs will live for a very long time. He was above all a man made for our times.

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