Inevitability in technology
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2016/5/2/inevitability-in-technology
Tag: Apple
“…Steve Jobs code-named Lisa for his daughter, but nobody acknowledged that at the time. Instead, Apple told people it was an acronym for “Local Integrated System Architecture”. Folks who know better decided it really meant “Let’s invent some acronym”.”
http://scottknaster.blogspot.ca/2014/01/before-mac-was-lisa-apples-10000.html
“I know that for every connection I make online, there is a connection I lose in the real world.”
“The Apple Launch is a closed circle of fawning sycophants, thrilled with gimmicks, adapted to computers, programmed, a throng of identical authentic individuals chained to their machines and congratulating themselves on being ‘connected,’ led by a human that resembles a robot.”
http://www.thealphapages.com/content/apples-launch-event-was-creepy-as-hell