History will remember Bill Gates, will forget Steve Jobs

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I'll be honest and agree with TLK I don't know much about Bill Gates charity work so I will remember him as the richest man/Microsoft guy. Similarly, I will remember Steve Jobs as the apple guy.

Edit: Read Le Pak's post and made me re-think she is right - I personally may not remember Seve Jobs because he has not been etched into our brains like Bill Gates. We have been hearing about Gates since we were younger.

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Ninja, sorry I added more to my post :p

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:D

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CDG but that may be a generational
thing as well.

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CDG but that may be a generational thing as well.

I was thinking that as well. The kids who are in elementary school now and are being raised with apple products will grow up hearing about Jobs and hence remember him.

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:D

Haw you took the like away :(

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I was thinking that as well. The kids who are in elementary school now and are being raised with apple products will grow up hearing about Jobs and hence remember him.

I would say it applies to teens as well, apple products have simply had a more profound incremental effect on them. what may have been newer for the kids from the previous decades was normal for them. When i was a kid sony walkman was a big deal, my niece and nephew dont even know what that was :D

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I do not agree with Mr Malcolm Gladwell as his analysis is not conducive to historical records.

People usually have short term memory; they remember historical personalities when the specific name appear repeatedly years after years after years in publication and with reference to buildings / monuments / institutions. Mrs Gates, no doubt is doing great effort for humanity through his philanthropic endeavor, but his name need buildings and institutions and literature for people to remember him after generations.

@TLK

Hmmm, name 2 philanthropist that you remember from 70's

There are quite a few; Hakeem Muhammad Saeed, Mother Terressa , Sir Agha khan and our very own Edhi sahab is active since 1950s

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I agree with TLK, partially. Sub Continent produced some remarkable personalities in last century in various fields.. one of them was Sir Ganga Ram. He was a brlliant Engineer and Architect but ironically people just know him due to his philanthropic work ( which was not on small scale either ) People of Lahore are unaware that well known beautiful buildings of Lahore were designed by Sir Ganga Ram. The most beautiful residential area named ‘Model Town’ was designed by him as well. He designed and built Hydal power plant in early 1900

It was there that I realised that Renala Power House (generating 1.1MW of electric power) was yet another manifestation of philanthropic zeal of legendary Sir Ganga Ram. Rather well-known for designing several historical buildings in Lahore including General Post Office, Lahore Museum, Government College, Aitchison College, Mayo Hospital and Ganga Ram Hospital, I never expected to come across another wonderful yet off the beaten track attraction attributed to this towering personality.

As I perused old records at the Power Station, it appeared that Sir Ganga Ram had designed and built the Renala Hydro Power Station in 1925 after obtaining on lease from the government 50,000 acres of barren and un-irrigated land in Montgomery District. As the record revealed, it took the genius three years to convert that vast desert into fertile agriculture fields by using irrigated water lifted from the hydroelectric plant which ran through scores of miles of irrigation channels. Needless to say that most of profits made from this (and such other enterprises) were liberally dedicated to countless acts of philanthropy and magnanimity, attributable to this great personality.

Footloose, NOS, The News International

But people are generally unaware of his work of his professional life which actually made huge impact on lives of citizens. That impact is clearly visible today.

Similarly, Imran Khan might be remembered for his cancer hospital and Manal University, fifty years from now and hardly anyone knows about his reverse swing :hmmm:

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Steve Job's contribution is a little over-rated I think, he didn't invent anything other than tablets and the smart phone revolution had started long before iPhone..

its like saying that Henry Ford's contributions were over-rated cause he did not invent Automobile and cars were in production when he entered the industry.