This past week saw an outpouring of grief around the country for Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died of pancreatic cancer last Wednesday. Jobs is remembered as a visionary who changed how we use technology every day. That commercial announcing the launch of Apple’s Macintosh played off of George Orwell’s “1984” and presented Apple as an iconoclast. But in recent New York Times Op-Ed argues that today there’s no company that looks more like the Big Brother of that commercial than Apple itself. Mike Daisey is an author and performer, and author of the Op-Ed.
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