One of the last things Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, wrote before he passed away was an essay on Steve Jobs, on the occasion of the latter’s resignation as Apple CEO. Here is an excerpt from Michael’s piece that reminds why both of these great people will be sorely missed.
We live in an age where the media are controlled by mega-corporations — hopefully not Apple — who deny the importance of the individual hero, to whom we owe so very very much because they want to replace all that via a corporate image that does not depend on individuals, other than as ad spokesmodels for their products, but no longer as the inventor, creator or maker of those products.
Those people, the inventors, creators, and makers of our products are a now lost species in the eyes and ears of our media’s corporate control.
Why Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak?
Because without them we would be years, if not decades, behind in world advancement of personal computers.
