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Young Adults Rank Steve Jobs as Second-Greatest Innovator of All Time

Posted in Apple, News on 26/01/2012 by J. Glenn Künzler

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Young adults hold a remarkable amount of revere for late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, ranking Jobs as one of the greatest innovators of all time, second only to Thomas Edison.

The information was the result of the most recent Lemelson-MIT Invention Index (as reported by The Mac Observer), a yearly survey given to young adults between 16 and 25, revealing that a surprising 24% of young adults surveyed consider Jobs to be the greatest inventor of all time, while 52% chose Thomas Edison.

Results like these go a long way in showing how connected young adults are to technology, and how much influence consumer electronics, and in particular companies such as Apple, actually have in their lives.

Of course, the survey also covered a number of other areas, such as how young adult feel about technology in general, willingness to participating in training outside of traditional classrooms, and more. I highly recommend checkout out the full study!



  • http://twitter.com/hellotoot toot!

    What the results really show is how ignorant the young adults surveyed are.

  • http://twitter.com/fayah Fayah

    I agree @toot!, where is Tesla?!

    • http://twitter.com/hellotoot toot!

      And Pythagoras, Da Vinci, Newton, Darwin, Turing, Einstein, Galileo to name just a few.

      Seriously who are these people that were surveyed?
      Mark Zuckerburg the 5th greatest innovator of all time for creating a myspace rip off?

      Wow.

  • Silblue23

    I totally agree where is Nikola Tesla out everyone that needs to be there Tesla needs to be there, but that just an Electrical engineering student’s opinion.

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J. Glenn Künzler

Glenn is Managing Editor at MacTrast, and has been using a Mac since he bought his first MacBook Pro in 2006. Now he's up to his neck in Apple, and owns an old iBook, a 2011 MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air, a third-generation iPad, 2 iPhones, and a Mac Mini that lives at the neighbor's house. He lives in a small town in Utah, enjoys bacon more than you can possibly imagine, and is severely addicted to pie.