Woz deserves all the accolades he gets; I was mostly thinking of everybody currently in tech: CEOs who were good at one thing (maybe less), but have decided they’re geniuses across all fields because they succeeded in one. That’s especially prevalent in the AI sphere, with many of the employees “speaking out” against AI just repeating the same baseless claims as the CEOs.
Far be from me to criticize mainstream media, but if I were a betting woman, I’d guess CNN was disappointed they didn’t get the typical apocalyptic prophecies.
So he had an accident while flying a cesna that he shouldn’t be flying, and suffered a head injury.
Infinite Loop, the book about Apple stuff, said that “Coming out of the semi-coma had been like flipping a reset switch in Woz’s brain. It was as if in his thirty-year old body he had regained the mind he’d had at eighteen before all the computer madness had begun. And when that happened, Woz found he had little interest in engineering or design. Rather, in an odd sort of way, he wanted to start over fresh.”
My god this is funny.
I know you’re being completely sincere, but taken out of context, that bit in parentheses is hilarious.
Woz deserves all the accolades he gets; I was mostly thinking of everybody currently in tech: CEOs who were good at one thing (maybe less), but have decided they’re geniuses across all fields because they succeeded in one. That’s especially prevalent in the AI sphere, with many of the employees “speaking out” against AI just repeating the same baseless claims as the CEOs.
Far be from me to criticize mainstream media, but if I were a betting woman, I’d guess CNN was disappointed they didn’t get the typical apocalyptic prophecies.
Yep, the guy who figured out how to use NTSC to show colors in 4 days of coding because he wanted to play breakout with colors, with a $1 chip.
I’m pretty sure his plane crash robbed us from great things.
What plane crash are you talking about here? I’m out of the loop
So he had an accident while flying a cesna that he shouldn’t be flying, and suffered a head injury.
Infinite Loop, the book about Apple stuff, said that “Coming out of the semi-coma had been like flipping a reset switch in Woz’s brain. It was as if in his thirty-year old body he had regained the mind he’d had at eighteen before all the computer madness had begun. And when that happened, Woz found he had little interest in engineering or design. Rather, in an odd sort of way, he wanted to start over fresh.”
It was in 1981 and he had to take a break from working at Apple due to his injuries
Oh thats a shame. If this hadn’t occurred would Apple be more friendly to open source these days?
Not a chance. By the time he left Apple in the 80s they had already gone full corpo
Ah ok