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August 25, 2011 By Matt Williams
Answer: $666.66
The wholesale price of the computer (Apple's first product) was $500, and a retail markup of one-third equalled $666.66. Wozniak said he liked it because he was into repeating digits and it was easier to type.
"We didn't know the number had religious significance," Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder, admitted in an interview. "We found out."
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While I owe my livelihood to computer technology, I have to wonder if PC technology has improved or degraded our lives. Even some medical advances are questionable in my mind. technology enables rapid movement of garbage across the web, cellphones enable drug dealers and terrorists. Morns drive while texting, endangering all of us daily...I just have to ask, are we better off, really?
As is the case with guns, computers can be life-savers or life-takers. It's up to us, individually and as a society. Where we have choices, let us choose wisely.
At the rate of growth in technology, how long do you think it will take human evolution to do away with the voicebox?
Not likely at all! People love to hear themselves talk. Just look around. Business communications may be done more by computers, but as long as there is a water cooler...