Thursday thought..
Is it the man or the machine? For many companies a single
man has been the icon of success. Welch, Gates, Jobs and Zuckerberg are just a
few. Many admirers of these men credit the growth and brilliance of these
companies to these men. Jobs, in particular, was given almost God like status
as he nurtured Apple into a giant
international company with vision and supremacy in the computing and related consumer
world. It seemed that Apple would go on forever with brilliant cutting edge
products. But, Jobs is gone, and Apple is not shining so brightly at this point.
Another company, Google has become the new star in the tech universe.
Moon shots were once the exclusive domain of Apple are now being regularly
rocketing into orbit by Google.
But who is Google. Do we associate this company with an off
the tongue name?
Who is the human controlling the machine?
In the age of drones perhaps the effect is more important
than who caused it.
Do we no longer need a man, or person to identify with corporate
success or will the machine of its own accord, sustain discovery, development
and public adulation?
