Now for TIME to announce...
Someone else as Person of the Year?
Now for TIME to announce...
Also agree. I got it on release day. I'm only half way through it, and no particular desire to finish it.
I much preferred Michael Malone's "Infinite Loop".
I guess the quality of public education isn't what it used to be over there, is it?
I enjoyed reading the book. But that doesn't mean I think it was a GOOD book. I think somewhere along the journey, Isaacson lost his way and even though he clearly included negativity in his book, it was clear at times that he just took Steve's word as gospel without balancing it with other viewpoints on some subjects.
That being said - even if the book was complete crap - it would have been the #1 seller because of the subject matter.
It's cute how you still grasp the last vestiges of euro-pride that still exist. The fact of the world is that most things happen in the U.S.A, not in the socialist environment that currently exists in Europe. We've been heading towards socialism, and that is the root of the reason we've been having so many economic troubles over here lately, but we're still not in as bad a state as Europe on many levels. Both European media and (I'm sad to say) American media are heavily biased nowadays and getting the real news is hard for most people, so I can understand if you disagree with me. The fact of the world is America is still where the opportunity is for as long as we remain a free-market capitalist economy, I just hope we can someday return to our former less-regulated glory.
Additional evidence that most of the world did not appreciate just how truly remarkable Steve Jobs was until his life neared its end. Now that he is gone, his biography allows us to finally appreciate the man and to learn from him what many did not appreciate about him in life.
It's cute how you still grasp the last vestiges of euro-pride that still exist. The fact of the world is that most things happen in the U.S.A, not in the socialist environment that currently exists in Europe.
The fact of the world is America is still where the opportunity is for as long as we remain a free-market capitalist economy, I just hope we can someday return to our former less-regulated glory.
I guess the quality of public education isn't what it used to be over there, is it?
Please educate yourself about how the modern world works.
The US and the rest of the West is fast becoming irrelevant.
Look towards the East and India.
There will be no return to glory for you. Less-regulated or otherwise.
I would vastly disagree with you. It's not an issue of losing relevancy in the world as a Nation, it's that our relevancy is changing.
The East... China.... India... Japan... have a great deal of reliance upon us for everything. If the US fell, it would be a domino affect. We may not export things anymore, nor are we a manufacturing power house any more, but we consume more and have some of the biggest trade.
Further, we are the leading nation in the medical field in both technologies and drug research. Other countries enjoy cheap medicine because we pay for it in a sense and fund research.
Our nation has just changed in a lot of ways in how we fit into the world, but we still are the most important piece of the puzzle, even if not the largest piece.
Where do you think America's greatest minds came from? They came here not because the US is so inherently great but rather because the world was at war while we had two oceans to protect us and an unusually robust stock of natural resources. Now that we've squandered many of our natural resources and handed over most of our wealth to the top 1% our best minds are beginning to migrate elsewhere. But I suppose that's exactly what you'd expect for a country that wants a truly free market so badly we're willing to give up almost anything to get it.The fact of the world is that most things happen in the U.S.A, not in the socialist environment that currently exists in Europe.
I hope Steve is donating some portion of the sales to some worthy cause.
If the US fell, it would be a domino affect. We may not export things anymore, nor are we a manufacturing power house any more, but we consume more and have some of the biggest trade.
Our nation has just changed in a lot of ways in how we fit into the world, but we still are the most important piece of the puzzle, even if not the largest piece.
It's a shame Isaacson is being so richly rewarded for a book that is getting poor reviews as having not really shown us anything we didn't already know about Steve.
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The credit ratings of European countries are taking a nose dive and they have billions in debt. But the US on the other hand have something like 15 Trillion in debt. And their credit rating went down one measly point. Something is not right there.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
$15,088,915,920,398.07 of US debt as of right now to be exact.