[microsound] RIP Steve Jobs

[Chris Gregory]

Many would argue (Karl Marx to start with) that technological advances
drive social change. In that sense, Steve Jobs changed the world in a
much more significant way than any policy maker ever has (or could).

You may say this is a matter of priorities; I think it is too.
Technological advances are not inevitable...new ideas aren't just
floating around in the aether waiting for someone to notice them. A
world without Steve Jobs would have been very different, and not in a
good way. As musicians this is doubly true.

Chris

On 6 October 2011 14:03, yugen <david at yugen-art.org> wrote:
>
> ok, now your point is much more clear and i understand what you mean, we
> know how media work. i think today anyway you have some powerful instruments
> to go against them, thanks to social networks and blogs and the internet,
> which was impossible for my generation. most of the young people got news
> from facebook and the internet, not tv or newspaper.
> i do not think world stopped today for his death either. he was a
> businessman? sure. i do not like at all apple products status symbol, i only
> got a mac for the first time in my 40s, but i think we cannot deny that he
> was a genius of our time. he was a millionaire too. yes.
> d.
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>
> i wasn't insulting anything except for the race to the bottom that is the
> media coverage. all i'm saying is that there are more important things in
> the world going on right now. fred shuttlesworth died today. that got wiped
> off the news. a watered down UN resolution attempting to get the syrian
> government to maybe kill less people in a day was vetoed. huh? and an entire
> movement taking a stand against the very corporations that are responsible
> for an entire lost generation is being ignored because of this one event.
> his death is sad, and condolences to his family, but i'm sorry if i don't
> feel that the world stopped dead today.
>
> and i apologize to you if you were/are offended by what i said. this was
> certainly not my intention.
>
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