"The Real Legacy of Steve Jobs"

[mrlynn]

The Real Legacy of Steve Jobs
by Sue Halpern

Review of two films and one book:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/02/...teve-jobs/

Moderately interesting read, considering the overdone subject, but here's her conclusion:

. . . Steve Jobs had an abiding belief in freedom—his own. As Gibney’s documentary, Boyle’s film, and even Schlender and Tetzeli’s otherwise friendly assessment make clear, as much as he wanted to be free of the rules that applied to other people, he wanted to make his own rules that allowed him to superintend others. The people around him had a name for this. They called it Jobs’s “reality distortion field.” And so we are left with one more question as Apple goes it alone on artificial intelligence: Will hubris be the final legacy of Steve Jobs?

I doubt if 'superintend' is the right word. Maybe 'overpower'?

/Mr Lynn

[Speedy]

How about; bend to his will.

[cbelt3]

"Goes it alone ?" POMTL --- AI has been researched for longer than Jobs was alive !