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"The liberal arts get short shrift in Silicon Valley" Steve Jobs had something to say about that: "..it's technology married with liberal arts, married with th
by santaclaus 12y ago
"The liberal arts get short shrift in Silicon Valley"
Steve Jobs had something to say about that: "..it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing..."
- autism_hurts 12y agoI know many on here will discount that as marketing bullshit, but it really is woven throughout their products.
- idlewords 12y agoCan you give examples of how Apple products are technology married with the liberal arts and humanities?
- autism_hurts 12y agoI think it's clearly seen in the focus on design details, software flows, abstraction of technical configuration, focus on Music, Art, Media, etc.
- potatolicious 12y agoJobs himself liked to use the example of typography. He took a typography course on a lark, and it became a core differentiator in Apple products. In an age where computers were only capable of printing utilitarian, fixed-width typewriter text, Apple made a computer that could render text in the same way it's published IRL. Jobs specifically cites this during his Stanford commencement speech: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
- idlewords 12y agoThat was a sales pitch.
- santaclaus 12y agoAnd if it was, so? Zuckerberg's identity gaffe was a total PR problem. Apple's Think Different campaign was very much informed by the humanities and liberal arts. To claim that the entirety of Silicon Valley doesn't get the liberal arts as the article claims is flat out wrong, just look at the company with the world's largest market cap.