After reading the document, I have found out that Charles Babbage and Steve Jobs have a lot of differences and similarities. Although the document was just an interview, I was able to attain a lot of knowledge regarding Steve Job’s efforts to make his personal computers and how he changed the future of technology just like Charles Babbage.
Steve Jobs and Charles Babbage are similar in many ways, for starters they are the two most important players in making and furthering the technology of computers. They both made the future of computers possible. They both knew that computers would be the most important and useful piece of technology the future would hold. Regarding their inventions, Babbage’s analytical engine was equal to Job’s Macintosh. Both of these inventions opened a new form of life to their time. For example: the Macintosh was the first personal computer ever made and Babbage’s analytical engine was considered to be the first computer ever. Both machines guided the future of technology down a new path that would alter the world as we knew it.
Steve Jobs and Charles Babbage also had a lot of differences regarding their work and personal life. Job’s didn’t really seem to struggle with his personal life but he did claim that his work took up so much time he never had time to start a family. On the other hand Babbage encountered many problems in his personal life that affected his work. For example, during the production of the difference engine his father, wife, and one of his sons died distracting him from his work and being criticized by the public. They are also different because Babbage didn’t really have any competition for the computer. He was the first to come up with the idea and put it into effect. But Job’s faced many competitors and struggled to keep up with them making his job very difficult.
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