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0 pointspavlov11y ago0 comments

Not long ago a brilliant inventor, Dean Kamen, created a startup that tried to solve this. The product received considerable hype before launch. When Steve Jobs saw a prototype, he reportedly said: "This will change the way cities are designed."

The final product -- Segway -- didn't, though. I'm not sure anyone is willing to try again soon.

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marze11y ago· 1 in thread

Don't see your Jobs quote in this account, although there are many more skeptical quotes, such as "Jobs said he lived seven minutes from a grocery and wasn't sure he would use Ginger to get there."

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html

pavlovOP11y ago

Looks like the Jobs quote was a rumour, at least according to BusinessWeek in 2001:

"Other stories claimed that Apple Computer co-founder Steven P. Jobs got an early peek and made the wacky prediction that cities would redesign themselves around the device. (Jobs denies he ever said this.)"

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2001-12-16/commentary-gi...

But then, I wrote "reportedly", and it was indeed widely reported at the time :)

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