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Steve Jobs Impact On Society

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Steve Jobs, the Co-founder of Apple Computer, invented the iMac, MacBook, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Those five products have become revolutionary to today’s modern world. Steve Jobs is famous for dropping out of college, but still attended art and philosophy classes at Reed College, Portland. He later went on to study abroad in India to learn about Eastern culture and religion. When he came back to the U.S.A., Steve Wozniak was trying to build a computer. Wozniak saw it as a “just for fun” work, but Jobs saw it as a marketing opportunity and convinced Wozniak to start a business with him. In 1977, the world and the first personal computer met, the Apple II. It had color instead of the typical black screen and yellow font, and a keyboard. The sales in the first year went all the way up to $3 million, but in the 1980’s the sales went down to $200 million. In 1983, Jobs was kicked out from Apple’s board of directors. March 1997, Apple was losing $708 million per quarter. In June Jobs took Apple back. In 1998 the first iMac was …show more content…

The definition of the internet is: the global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information. The internet allows us to share ideas at any given point. A great deal of people nowadays have blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Snapchat, etc. Articles are mainly the way ideas and information is shared. Even though technology has its benefits, it has its downsides. Technology has made conversation shallow (small talk is now considered deep intellectual conversations), it has made many people antisocial, it can cause depression, there is so much information out there that by pure accident a kid could stumble into pornography, relationships don’t have that deep connection anymore. Technology can truly be horrible and it can make one’s life hard. Technology has made many people quite shallow, and conversations therefore are

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