In 50 years the name of Steve Jobs will be forgotten, while people are building statues to Bill Gates, according to a best selling author.
Malcolm Gladwell's logic is impeccable. He thinks that since Gates used his money to save Africans from dying, while Jobs just made toys, humanity will remember the Microsoft King fondly.
During a recent interview in Toronto, Gladwell said humanity will have no reason to have a clear memory of his longtime tech rival, Apple chief Steve Jobs.
He said that there will statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that, because of his money, people will cure malaria.
Gladwell does not believe that Gates will be remembered for the way he made his money either. He thinks that people will forget Microsoft, Windows and the whole reason that Gates has pots of cash.
Gladwell ans penned nonfiction books include "Blink" and "The Tipping Point." His most recent book, called the "Outliers," attempts to explain what factors separate highly successful people from average ones.
He said that when the world venerates entrepreneurs, such as is happening with the Apple cargo cult, it is important that it realises what it is venerating.
Entrepreneurs are not moral leaders, because if they were they wouldn't be great businessmen.
Gladwell said that every single idea of Jobs came from somebody else. And he would be the first to say this.
Jobs took credit for things. He was shameless. He was an extraordinarily brilliant businessman and entrepreneur. He was also a self-promoter on a level that we have rarely seen, Gladwell said.
But that does not add up to a tin of beans when you look at historical contribution and memory.
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Should Divinity exists and He is who and what most assumed Him to be, Almightly of This and That, why would He need to asks any question or to start thinking about this or that? He just does but with one big difference, He lacks thoughts other than is/being. Being the One who has no Evolution-Devolution, His Ego then is the source of all real creation and creativity unlike infinitising jokers whose ego is the result of their superficial creativity, creativities like PhonyPoddyPaddy, or, "Ve R at your attenshun and will pop-up to serve you when you need us, and don't worry yore little heads about wasted komputar cycles but just let us have all yore details and vital stats, hokay - yours lovingly, BB", other mesmeric nonsense. Like those born blind lacking the principle or even the concept of colours, those who are unable to see or perceive Divinity, oka Positive Spirituality, will cast Divinity into the ranks of mythology at best or some concept of pope-ing at worst. The Divine realises this, of course. If so, what is His game? For those mired in their Fame, Fortune & Immortality, The Divine not only do not exists for Fame, Fortune or Immortality, [or else you'll be able to see and then try to own Him/corner that market too] He has no concept of such nonsense/myth in the manner that most would not even give a thought about poking a needle into their eye or smoking a rolled-up newspaper joint.
As such, those who seek Fame, Fortune and Immortality are not only human/thinkers but are those who are only born to die, much like beggars, thieves, gangsters, "oligarchs" and similar wickedness, because they are not privy to Reality, merely existing to die - to get the best out of The System before they pop off, a system which revolves around saving or be saved, the MO of Humanity being of Ownership Issues. To own the material and then the immateriality of others' worship/enslavement, by hook or by crook. Should The Divine exists, what should He do about these worse than animals and/or vegetation?
The duty of The Living is to evolve/progress, not for the sake of Subjectivity, Objectivity or Projectivity but for the sake of Spirituality, the mechanism behind The Living. On the other hand, the duty of the The Non-Living, Oka The Stone Dead, is to promote devolution or to "ground"/zeroed The Living, to suck the life [force] out of that which has energy, just like Ye Ole Vampirism, Count yore bloody stars Dracula, slurp !! In between the two, lies Humanity, oka The Living-but-Dead, but with one big difference, which is that all true humans have The Living within them during every moment of existence [non-existence, oka Destruction, having not been instituted since The Creation and thence Evolution] whereas for The non-Living to enter into one's domain requires ….. thoughts. Eets true, blue, and you'll be knocked out of your deadliness once you'd realised the reality, a truth which cannot be told, like what is being done now, nor could it be preached, re-presented or whatever. Da Komrade, naada.
If the above is true, how will one then get on board the soon to fully depart train towards The Source? Well, not so much, "Do not get caught", and neither will, "Don't do eet", be the [true] life-saver, but how pure you are within your desire is the key to unlocking the secrets of the ages and Humanity too, something the mumbo-jumbo and the hocus-pocus within secret societies and cliques have been trying to acquire since time immemorial and a secret which the conspiricists are being sucked into as they try to unravel the mystery [of the secret societies] within the mystery they have had a glimpsed of. [Without the ability to truly witness, which is not to be confused with indifference, one loses energy/credit to another during an engagment. This is because when 2 energy levels engage, the higher energy will always "lose"/give something to the lower energy - the principle/essence of Love, Love being the experiencing/flow/expression of Truth and not some lovey-dovey, goody-2-shoe frivolity of The Sympatheticos' version of the love which demands or expects, the backdoor which The Cruel exploit to the hilt with their myriad of "Rights", "Carbon Zist und Zat, "Save The Children", and so forth. It is benevolent to realise that Control is merely the front for Abandonment much like, say, some anti-paedophile soceity is merely the access point for paedophiles. Always has been and always will be, there being no singularly natured human. Why is this so principled? Because Humanity is not of Divinity - unless the Divinity within is awakened within and when this happens, the individual will not be of Religion & Religiosity. Witness and learn and then become unconditionally pure and you'll be on that Return Jouney of Dust to The Source].
As for the likes of Billy Boy and that most dutiful Tag-Along of The Chosen Few who is locked within Limbo Rock, regretting upon regret now that he could see but is unable to buy his way out of because the currency over thar is beyond Fame, Fortune & Immortality, Reality having zero concept of FF&I and is therefore not principled/bound by them, both examples of the self-denied consciousness of Reality were running amok to get to where they are, and is only perceived as the Famous, the Fortunate and the Immortal because their lineage were well perfumed and powdered by that darling of The Bookie, the organised and serenditpitously disorganised Mass Media. Like any Infinitiser who'd managed to clean-up its act when it was able to do so, The Monopolist and The Glitzer are but empty shells which is why whatever they'd touched before and after, will only favour Devolution. Everyone of their reversed Midas Touches. Witness and start seeing for once but do not judge. Afterall, these types have sacrificed their real future in order to be examples of futility for others - but only if one has the eyes to really see.