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**Jeffery** · 10-11-2011, 12:20 AM

People that have an idea, and then create first-order technology that spawns entire industries, and completely change society are at a different plane than people like Jobs.

He didn't invent the mouse. He didn't develop software. The components for his devices were developed elsewhere.

Technology was driving society in the direction to where we are now, Jobs or not. Before the personal computer, there were already educational and business computer networks. I worked with them as early as 1970. The lack of processing power, the need to be hooked up to a mainframe, prevented them from becoming personal. The same thing with handheld devices. They've been around for decades, but were called car-phones, because they were too big to carry around. Advances in battery design, processors, transmission networks, and display screens are what put them in our pockets.

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Jeffery Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	People that have an idea, and then create first-order technology that spawns entire industries, and completely change society are at a different plane than people like Jobs. He didn't invent the mouse. He didn't develop software. The components for his devices were developed elsewhere. Technology was driving society in the direction to where we are now, Jobs or not. Before the personal computer, there were already educational and business computer networks. I worked with them as early as 1970. The lack of processing power, the need to be hooked up to a mainframe, prevented them from becoming personal. The same thing with handheld devices. They've been around for decades, but were called car-phones, because they were too big to carry around. Advances in battery design, processors, transmission networks, and display screens are what put them in our pockets.
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