What Do Steve Jobs' Obituaries Leave Out? His Appreciation for LSD

AlterNet by Walter Armstrong | Oct. 10, 2011 (Special Report)
Apple's legendary co-founder Steve Jobs said acid was one of the most important things he did in his life.

Speaking about his youthful experiments with psychedelics, Jobs said, "Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." He was hardly alone among computer scientists in his appreciation of hallucinogenics and their capacity to liberate human thought from the prison of the mind. Jobs even let drop that Microsoft's Bill Gates would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." Apple's mantra was"Think different." Jobs ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Oct 10, 2011 - 12:14 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Walter Cox (review), G.D.Wymer (review), Randy Morrow (review), heniek (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Oct 10, 2011 - 12:19 AM PDT

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Walter Cox
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 by Walter Cox - Oct. 10, 2011

That Steve Jobs used psychedelics, including LSD, is not really news to anyone who has read much about him, yet it is important and relevant. The book, WHAT THE DOORMOUSE SAID, is quite good; anyone who thinks hippie culture was a passing phenomenon just hasn't been paying attention.

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heniek
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G.D.Wymer
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 by G.D.Wymer - Oct. 10, 2011

Do we really care about Steve Jobs that much? Anyone who makes a fortune in America, or anywhere else for that matter, does not do this on his or her own. And these people are not iconoclasts so much as knowing how to play the market, when to take opportunities and they become the newest members of the capitalist establishment. Gates and Jobs may be seen as visionaries, inventors, heroes, but in what ways have they made this world a better place to live in any significant social or political aspect? They made billions off their proprietary technology. And the rest of us for the most part must go along, trying to survive in systems of incompatibility and non-standardization of applications, software, operating systems.Things ... More »

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