Tuesday, January 18, 2011

A World Without Jobs

Andy Crouch:
Steve Jobs’s medical leave of absence is the top story in today’s newspapers. The Wall Street Journal says his brief and poignant memo raises “uncertainty over his health and the future of the world’s most valuable technology company.” These two questions—Jobs’s health and Apple’s health—are the focus of almost all the coverage today.

But I’m interested in the health of our culture, and what will happen to it when (not if) Steve Jobs departs the stage for the last time.
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1 comment:

Chris Taus said...

One risk is that Steve Jobs kept Apple's brilliant minds united with his incredible charisma. There's a chance that his successor won't be able to do the same, and their talents will fall apart in a fight for power.