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The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: ShiffDrgnhrt on October 05, 2011, 07:44:21 pm

Title: The Death of a Titan
Post by: ShiffDrgnhrt on October 05, 2011, 07:44:21 pm

Steve Jobs has died. . .  :(

Apple says Steve Jobs has died - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/apple-says-steve-jobs-has-died/2011/10/05/gIQAS3ISOL_story.html)

Title: Re: The Dead of a Titan
Post by: miltonyorkcastle on October 05, 2011, 11:39:49 pm

Too young.

Title: Re: The Dead of a Titan
Post by: cbnicholson on October 06, 2011, 10:33:03 am

Tempus Fugit, Momento Mori..  Thanks for all the cool ideas, Mr. Jobs.:(

Title: Re: The Dead of a Titan
Post by: darkstorme on October 06, 2011, 04:55:48 pm

As some condolence, clearly he loved his job, since only a life-threatening illness was able to force his retirement.

(Also, "Death of a titan".)

Title: Re: The Dead of a Titan
Post by: ShiffDrgnhrt on October 06, 2011, 05:55:24 pm

Quote from: darkstorme

(Also, "Death of a titan".)

I knew that!  >.<

Title: Re: The Dead of a Titan
Post by: lonnarin on October 06, 2011, 06:10:56 pm

Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003.  Told he had only months to live.  Lasted more than nearly a decade.  I honestly figured he was about ready to go when he stepped down as CEO last month.  The man's such a workaholic that only death would ever stop him.

Title: Re: The Death of a Titan
Post by: lonnarin on October 08, 2011, 12:44:18 am

What I really love is that the iPod touch and iPhone are having apps now that can greatly influence the technology realm.  Right now at our campus, the College of Medicine is using iPods and iPhones to give direct feeds of Cat-scans and X-rays, laying down templates that can cross reference and find cancer.  Our Tech Specialist Tristain wound up making an app that can detect Malaria from a few images of blood cells.  They have truly become tricorders of Star Trek lore.  The Datapads that Jake Cisco used to type his stories on, and Worf read his security reports on, iPads.  

Steve Jobs took us a significant step towards the cyberpunk era.  Now it's just Angry Birds and iTunes, but just you wait.  Soon form will follow into function and user interface will facilitate science to a level of full integration.  I read that you can buy a toy helicopter now for only $300 that is controlled by BRAINWAVES.  I kid you not, and amputee veterans are not only manipulating artificial limbs with such, but also FEELING the things they touch from signals sent back to them.

You know what this means, don't you?  Science Fiction has become reality.  Unfortunately, society has taken kind of a Soylent Green meets 1984 aspect too, but hey, soy paste bacon is a small price to pay for living room holodecks.  (now Nintendo Wii just needs visors and feedback suits)