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NewsWatch: Editorial Cartoon -- Steve Jobs' Place in History
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October 10, 2011 By Wayne Hanson from News Reports
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Maglev is short for magnetic levitation -- a technology whereby trains are propelled by motors on a monorail, and permanent magnets levitate the train cars an inch above the rail. No rubber or steel friction means less wear and tear, easier braking and less energy use. But grand schemes for super-speedy trains connecting cities have been put on hold so long that some have given up. Fox News
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That is almost an appropriate cartoon, but for reasons the artist probably didn't consider. It represents several peole who were actually inventors: Alexander Bell, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, not an inventor, and doesn't belong there at all. Steve Jobs was neither an inventor nor a scientist. Steve Wozniak was the inventor. Jobs was great at recognizing the commercial potential of ideas, guiding designs to completion, and marketing products. Not negligible accomplishments, but if he belongs on the "icloud" in the cartoon it is only because Ford and Edison were also great marketers. Bell did some marketing but was mainly an inventor. Einstein had nothing to market, though without his discoveries, Jobs wouldn't have had anything either.