Is Steve Jobs the 2nd Greatest Innovator of All Time?

[SwagLordYoloson]

My vote goes to Kim Jong-il he invented more things than anyone else I have heard of.

 

[DoctorM]

An MIT poll asked 18-25 year olds to name an inventor they'd even heard of...

Sounds like MIT wanted to find out how catastrophically the U.S. educational system has failed to teach basic science.

 

[DoctorM]

(Yay, CAPTCHA system intended to prevent spamming posted my comment twice. Works great guys.)

 

[Jegsimmons]

yeah um...didnt apple just release stuff that already existed with less features and ability but with more marketing?

maby innovator of being douche bags....yeah i said it...the dude parked in handicap zones.

 

[isometry]

They should redesign the graphic to say "Are you completely ignorant of history?" with 100% of respondents saying "yes" and 0% saying "no", since that's the sum total of information I got from their results.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Thomas Edison was a crank and completely screwed over Tesla, a much better man who would have made the world a much better place.

Tesla wanted to give everyone FREE energy. Edison wanted to charge for it, so he smeared the shit out of Tesla's name. This isn't even touching on all the ideas Tesla had, and could've probably done had he not been screwed by Edison.

Fuck Edison.

This is the second:

This is what I thought of:

Spoiler

Also, to the creator of the survey, if you don't want people to bring up innovators from the past, say "best modern innovator" and not "best innovator of ALL TIME".

Damn that's all well said!

That list is rather flimsy (as others have stated, no Da Vinci or Tesla?!?) and as far as Jobs goes, the above quotes sum it up nicely. The man was anti-competition as all hell, but because Apple just isn't Microsoft they get the "anything goes card." Now after Steve Jobs' passing, he pretty much is a tech-hipster-Jesus figure, which is disturbing enough by itself.

But if we are to be honest with ourselves, a majority of those polled probably think that Steve Jobs personally invented the fucking iPhone, iTunes, and the very Apple earbuds (of shit quality, mind you) plugged into their heads. So to them, yeah, he really is their tech-hipster-Jesus figure. Although to again address honesty, if this had anything to do with innovation, I think that it's hard not to snicker when Apple hasn't had the creativity to make up any other name than i + "product" for years.

 

[wintercoat]

I has a sad now. They really need to stop licking Edison's balls in history books. I remember there being whole chapters on the guy when I was in school, and maybe a small blurb about Tesla, usually just saying that he invented the Tesla coil and pointing out how cool it is.

 

[A Satanic Panda]

I came here to Speak my mind, but everyone else spoke the words for me. That is not a list of innovators, that is a list of pop figures and people who happened to get to the patent office first.

I know what you mean. Like the high school head of student body elections, it's just a big popularity contest. That awkward moment when someone running spends too much time making him/her self look good rather says to you "Isn't that the whole point?"

Jack Kilby, Robert Noyce, Anyone?

 

[Miles000]

Nope. Nick Tesla.

Why does Tesla get no love? His ideas and inventions were way ahead of their time and better than anything Edison made in his life.

VOTE TESLA!

Nikola. Fucking. Tesla!
The man invented a valve that only allows water to flow in one direction, without any moving parts!

He has my vote.

 

[Darren716]

I think its sadder that Zuckerberg and Earhart even got on to that list, apparantly stealing someone else's ideas counts as inovation the same way flying a plane does.

 

[drakvakt]

Leigh Estabrooks should be beaten to death with a bag filled with iphones.

Ironicly that punishment whould be more innovative than the iphones themselves

 

[unacomn]

Those poll results both offend and sadden me. Where's Tesla? Where's Einstein? Where's von Braun? Well, at least Stephanie Meyer isn't on the list.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Seriously? Edison? Edison stole his ideas from Tesla (among others) and was kind of an asshole.

 

[HorrendusOne]

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
No, not just the meme, I 100% seriously I have no hope anymore if this is what the majority of that age group thinks.

 

[Random Fella]

Me thinking this is a troll
Sees it's a story form an actual news editor
Realizes it's a statistical opinion based study
Yeah don't trust those, especially when you ask the average person, because the average person doesn't know anything about anything.
Seriously? Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs hold over 75% of the vote? Neither of them are even that innovative. Just take others ideas.

 

[Vkmies]

Apparently, the man who made a good phone is more innovative than a man who invented PHONES IN GENERAL. Fuck people. Screw humanity

 

[Stravant]

Mark Zuckerberg is on this list.

I take that as a statement that it is not noteworthy at all.

 

[LiquidGrape]

EDISON?! JOBS?! ZUCKERBERG?!

Glad to see Curie and Earhart so high in the charts though, considering women are so often neglected when it comes to this kind of appraisal.
Sad to see Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin isn't in there, however. Unsurprised, but still sad. I mean, uncovering which atom provided the most significant portion of the universe's makeup couldn't possibly be a significant achievement in human history, right?