Charlie Stross on Nostr: HYPOTHESIS: There's an anecdote that the Steves Jobs and Woz dropped acid then went ...
HYPOTHESIS: There's an anecdote that the Steves Jobs and Woz dropped acid then went to see 2001: A Space Odyssey when it came out. I think Jobs spent the rest of his life trying to re-create the monolith he'd seen on his trip: a featureless black slab of magic that upgrades the brains of hominids who are exposed to it. Note the way the original Mac 128K and the first iPad with keyboard dock share the same proportions when viewed from in front, the way the iPhone is the size of a flint hand-axe …
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