Steve Jobs’ Genius & a stupid comparison
Steve Jobs’s Genius - NYTimes.com
China and India are likely to produce many rigorous analytical thinkers and knowledgeable technologists. But smart and educated people don’t always spawn innovation. America’s advantage, if it continues to have one, will be that it can produce people who are also more creative and imaginative, those who know how to stand at the intersection of the humanities and the sciences. That is the formula for true innovation, as Steve Jobs’s career showed.
Sir, why bring in China & India here, in an otherwise good article!!
I do not really want to be showing I am a proud Indian or something (I do not even know if I am or not - it just depends on the mood & context, I guess) - But do you not say yourself like this:
He told me he began to appreciate the power of intuition, in contrast to what he called “Western rational thought,” when he wandered around India after dropping out of college. “The people in the Indian countryside don’t use their intellect like we do,” he said. “They use their intuition instead … Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.”
If those Indians in the country side get Western education & start applying their intuition, are they not the best people to be at the intersection of humanities & technology? Just wondering.
