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Thursday, October 06, 2011

Monkey See

Steve Jobs: How Apple's CEO Helped Transform Popular Culture

Steve Jobs, seen here in June 2010, passed away Wednesday at 56 after battling cancer for years.

October 6, 2011 Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday, changed many things about the way we consume music, television, and even books.

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The Two-Way

The Word For Steve Jobs: Visionary

Apple's website this morning.

October 6, 2011 Look at front pages, listen to news broadcasts or search the Web today and it's the one word that comes up over and over again in reports about the death of Apple's co-founder.

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Steve Jobs: The Link Between Machines And Humans

October 6, 2011 Through his work, the Apple co-founder and former CEO imagined ever-present, all-purpose, people-friendly gizmos that bridged the divide between poet and programmer, music lover and machinist, grandparent and gamer, technoid and virtually everyone else.

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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

All Songs Considered

How Steve Jobs Changed The Way We Listen

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduces the new iPod Nano in San Francisco in 2009.

October 5, 2011 We listen to music in the 21st century in a profoundly different way than we did in the 20th century. Although Apple didn't invent the portable music player, the vision of Steve Jobs and his company changed our listening landscape dramatically in 2001 with iTunes and the iPod.

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Steve Jobs, Poet Of Computer World, Dies

Steve Jobs holds up an iPhone at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco in June 2010.

October 5, 2011 Long before the MacBook and the iPad, the Apple co-founder and former CEO dreamed that computers could be used to help unleash human creativity. He spent much of his life bringing that dream to fruition.

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