unlike most CEOs in Silicon Valley, he contemplated the impact of technology and new media on society. He liked journalism—at least in theory, although in practice he was a master manipulator of the press. Still, take Jobs saying this: “One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free healthy press. We all know what’s happened to economic businesses. News gathering and editorials are important. I don’t want to descend into a nation of bloggers.” Compare that with Elon Musk—who might have been the natural inheritor of Jobs’ status—tweeting on March 23, 2023, that all
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