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Originally Posted by JSWolf
No way. Edison invented. Jobs reinvented. Two completely different things. Inventing is coming up with new original ideas. Reinventing is taking existing ideas. Jobs was not an inventor.
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Agreed. Not an inventor, but a genius all the same.
It takes a unique kind of brillance to see the hidden potential in innovations that are sitting under everyone's nose. Steve Jobs wasn't the only person to visit Xerox or try out the Alto. But he was the man who saw how graphical user interfaces could change personal computing. Without him, GUIs might have remained a passing oddity, like virtual reality or voice-driven computer systems.