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JOBS, AN EXAMPLE THAT EVERY LIFE IS VALUABLE By: Jan White The
announcement of Steve Jobs’ death dominated the network and
cable news coverage. Many of the news stories and interviews
about his life described the 56-year-old as a visionary for
transforming the way we use technology. Steve Jobs has been
compared to Thomas Edison and Henry Ford because of the impact
of his inventions on our daily lives. Jobs has been called one
of the fathers of the personal computing era. A co-founder of
Apple computers in 1976, he once said, “We started out to get a
computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded
beyond our wildest dreams.” Jobs is known as the creator of the
iPhone, iPad and iPod. He changed the movie industry when he
purchased the computer division of Lucasfilm, Ltd. in 1986 and
incorporated it as an independ