<p>Great quote from Wilde, musica!</p>
<p>The loss of Mr. Jobs must be more important than I guessed, as it was announced on a network by interrupting the regularly scheduled program. “My god!”, I thought, when it began – supposing that a major disaster or large scale terrorist attack had happened – “What now?!”…it was quite anticlimactic to learn what it was – not the death of a world leader, mind you, but that of a businessman – certainly a gifted one, but a businessman all the same.</p>
<p>It was almost humorous listening to the ensuing “special”. People waxing poetic about someone as if he had been the next coming…</p>
<p>It certainly is a loss for the computer industry, particularly Apple, but let’s get some pespective here. He basically produced a tool – a TOOL – to make things more convenient, true, but to somehow impute that such accomplishments as his have profoundly affected our humanity is frightening. Now, perhaps robots might “feel” an inconsolable loss…</p>