Rest in peace Robert X. Cringely. For those interested, the documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" is available on the Internet Archive.
<a href="https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds
Around the time that Triumph of the Nerds came out in 1995 I saw the segment in which Cringely introduces the audience to someone he builds up as "the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP15q-s1yMM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP15q-s1yMM . When it was revealed to be Steve Jobs I—a teenage Macintosh fanboy!—thought "what, that has-been? How ridiculous."
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