Future civilizations will look back and...

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messiahtoshmessiahtosh
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
will probably point to Apple's designs and overall sense of elegance, they will do this when teaching the history of personal computers, in schools and when they pinpoint their technological ancestry.



I really think that in a future (say 300 years) of an advanced culture, Apple will possibly be around, if not physically they already have undoubtedly influenced what will exist then. I think that is one of the great things about Apple Computer, the legacy that they leave on the technology/real people solutions market cannot be overstated. The innovations that we know today as, "far ahead of the other guys in the market" is just not being realized by the overall population. These things we have now as sort of "specific to us" will just be standards in the future.



As Mac users that is the unique thing about us, we GET what most other people seem to take long periods of time to adapt to.



What do you believe will be Apple's greatest legacy/contribution to the future of technology...long after Jobs and Apple as we know it cease to exist?



Personally, I believe it will just be the overall approach Apple has taken as a company. Their strategy just seems to really be the only effective one in terms of real innovation. You need to be able to make all aspects of the solution to really make it a solution.

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    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Apple won't be around in 300 years. They will not look at apple as part of design, but IF we are lucky as company that ignited the personal computer revolution.
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    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    if they ran across a computer from our century...



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    ipodandimacipodandimac Posts: 3,273member
    they'll all be laughing at Microsoft and how bad it "was."
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    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    I think they will look at computers from the late 20th and early 21st centuries much the way that we look at early attempts at powered flight. Maybe there were a few almost-successful ones, but what do we see? A bunch of (rather comical) failures. They'll depict computers as thrown-together machines that barely work, if at all, and I doubt there will be much mention of Apple specifically.
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    sonofsylvanussonofsylvanus Posts: 579member
    Who remembers the different makes and makers of telescopes, compasses, gyroscopes, guns, radios, microchips etc? Not many people I am guessing. And that's going back less than 100 years. In 300 years Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Gateway etc will be entirely forgotten as brands. Their legacy will exist as the "personal computer", if anything. Bill gates will likely be more remembered as "designing and creating the first computer" than Jobs, or Apple as "innovators". Anyway, we'll all live on Mars in 300 years, we'll have lived through so many dozen more wars, and there will be completely new horizons that excite, rather than technology.
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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by curiousuburb

    if they ran across a computer from our century...







    "Hello, computer."



    "Just use the keyboard!"



    "A keyboard. How quaint."



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    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    of course, if http://archive.org is still online, they can catch up pretty quickly
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    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    Imagine this, but made of G5s, and 15 years from now:



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    tfworldtfworld Posts: 181member
    LOL!!! I bet there will be some mention... Maybe people will finally get sick of dying computers and get a real one? That would make a nice change!
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