Steve jobs died on Oct 5 this year. He was the man who co-founded Apple computers and recently made the company very successful with introduction of iPads, iPods and iPhones. It is mainly the last one, the iPhone that made him hugely famous and his company a big corporate success. His death was major international news and was covered by almost all the news media of the entire world even in the poorest countries where only a handful could lay their hands on one of his creations. His obituaries appeared in every newspaper and magazine including millions of blogs and twiterlogs. Many described his innovations as word changing. Even the most powerful man of our world the president of USA lamented, “The world has lost a visionary”
On Sept 27 this year Wilson Greatbatch died. He invented the first practicable cardiac pacemaker in 1960. The heart has a collection of specialised tissue that initiates regular and orderly contraction of its chambers to pump the blood around our body. In many patients this area does not work properly which leads to failure of the heart. In these patients, cardiac pacemaker is implanted to do the same job. Not only the pacemaker but also the long lasting lithium battery was also introduced by Greatbatch. Now more than half a million pacemakers are implanted each year. Greatbatch held more than 300 patents. The implantable pacemaker was cited as one of the 10 greatest engineering contributions to society. It has saved and continues to save lives of millions of heart patients. His obituaries only appeared in few news papers, which generously devoted a couple of inches in a hidden obscure column.
Job was a man of vision but only for the ever-wanting consumer society. His creations no doubt beautiful and efficient were but elegant and cool toys for rich. After everything is said and done, his company produced improved glamorised entertainment equipments. However it did make a lot of money and very fast. In 21st century, that is probably the benchmark not just of success but of greatness as well!
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Agree!! Another example, Dennis Ritchie died on OCT 12.He was the man behind creation of UNIX, C and Programs. Without his efforts, we all would have read in Binaries till date. His death is a very big setback for computing. I guess only a few people knew about his death too.
I believe one of the reasons behind the ignorance of other people over Steve may be the way he died. He was suffering from pancreatic cancer which eventually caused his death. His nature of death attracted sympathy of people and hence more media coverage (TRP greediness).
All we can say: All that glitters is not Gold!!
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youtube to mp3, limewireyes i too agree with your view... today the world is materistic and people have become more greedy. with this sad death of job, many people tried to gain popularity,sympathy and the most important the greed
but as ganghiji said "there is enough for everyone's need but not for the greeds....."
a time will come when people will realise this themselves.....
in one of my literature book i read the title "the rattrap" , this story is written by selma swedish writer.......... the story har very good theme which i would like to share-
"the world with its land and seas,its cities and villages is nothing but a rattrap. It had never existed for any other purpose than to set baits for people. It offered riches and joys , shelter and food , heat and clothing, exactly as the rattrap offers cheese and pork , and as soon as anyone let himself be tempted to touch the bait, it closes in on him and then everything comes to an end"
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