Death of a Human Tech God

Steve Jobs died today at the age of 56.

Way back in 1994—some years before Steve Jobs would make his own resurrection complete by returning to the then-faltering Apple—Umberto Eco famously posited that the world was divided by “a new underground religious war” pitting the users of Macintosh against those of Microsoft. Further, he insisted, “I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed,” Eco continued:

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