Steve Jobs' Influence On The Military -- Defense Tech
Apple founder Steve Jobs, the Bay Area-bred Buddhist, tech mogul and non-conformist who died yesterday, may not be the first person you associate with the military — he even issued the famous quote "it's more fun to be a pirate than join the navy" — his inventions have indeed helped transform the military.
First off, it was largely Jobs who brought the easy to use graphical user interface and mouse to the masses with the Macintosh computer. The Mac and other Jobs' creations ushered in the spirit of the modern Internet long before it existed by allowing average people to use computers to produce and share information. In the decade and a half after the Mac's release we'd see the major computer companies producing personal computers — inspired by the Mac — that ran easy to use software flooding average consume [...]
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