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Oatmeal Fundraiser a Success; Non-Profit Buys Land For Tesla Museum
Ars Technica reports that The Oatmeal's successful fund-raiser has borne fruit; on Friday the non-profit to which Oatmeal founder Matthew Inman's Indiegogo campaign's money was directed completed part of its goal to purchase and turn into a museum Nikola Tesla's former estate Wardenclyffe. There's plenty of work before the land can be a proper museum, but now it is in the hands of the non-profit organization Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.
On the contrary, I would not mind seeing more Jobs museums. Without him:
We would have not had personal computers as we know them today. We probably would be using 3270 terminals and paying time per hour to dial into a nearby mainframe.
We would still be using VisiCalc with "/" commands for everything instead of usable GUIs.
We would still be using CDs instead of MP3 players. Before the iPod, MP3 players were regarded as geek chic if best.
We would still be buying music, for $19.00 an album, for that one good song, from crowded CD stores, as opposed to just tapping/clicking twice on iTMS.
We would still be using Motorola RAZR clones and saying that a phone that calls and texts is good enough. Apple invented the smartphone as we know it.
We would look at tablets as something from Star Trek or something for a niche like inventory control.
Jobs has revolutionized the way we do business, interact, communicate, and schedule our daily life. Nobody else in history has made an effect on our lives as radically as him.