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Article: Steve Jobs and the portal to the invisible: in his controlling hands, technology became both the engine and the emblem of transcendence. But as the iPhone slips from his grasp, Jobs is making his final bid for immortality.(75 PROFILE)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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One day, Steve Jobs is going to die. First, he is mortal. Second, the odds against him are not only actuarial--the inevitable odds we all face--they are clinical. Four years ago, he announced in a memo to his employees that he had undergone surgery, that the surgery was for the removal of a malignant tumor, that the tumor was on his pancreas, and that the surgery was, as he put it, successful. An exceptional man who specializes in exceptionalizing himself-he has been an economic force for thirty years, and it's still hard to put him in a category, or even to say exactly what he does-he responded to his disease by exceptionalizing it as well. He was at pains to say that the ...
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