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if you believe that enabling people to easily communicate with each other and access basically the sum total of humanity's knowledge whenever they want is a goo
by achenet 2y ago
if you believe that enabling people to easily communicate with each other and access basically the sum total of humanity's knowledge whenever they want is a good thing (ie if you think giving people iPhones so they can message each other and read wikipedia is a good thing), then you can say his work did help with that.
You can also say that Macs have helped many people express themselves creatively (iMovie, Garage Band, Logic, Final Cut...), which you might think is a good thing.
- SteveSmith16384 2y agoThe technology to do all of those things existed well before iPhones & Macs appeared. You may argue that "yeah but he made them popular", but the iPhone & Mac users were never in the majority.
- kelnos 2y agoAt this point in time I'm not yet convinced smartphones are a net positive for humanity. They enable various forms of internet/"social"/consumerist addictions. Sure, there are great and transformative uses for them, but it's not clear to me yet how the scales balance out.