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Portable Music Player - one of the worst inventions in 21st century

random-thoughts

In 1867, Alfred Nobel patented the world’s first dynamite. It was great, until the World War I made full use of it in 1914.
In 1925, Thomas Midgley Jr. invented leaded petrol and CFC’s. The world was excited with the mass production of air-con, until in 1970 James Lovelock looked up the sky and noticed the Ozone hole

In 2001, Apple released the first iPod. This is their concept (picture taken from wired.com)

ipod

Steve Jobs announced it as a product with a 5 GB hard drive that “puts 1,000 songs in your pocket”. Meaning, if you purchase each song from iTunes for 1$ , Steve Jobs will “pull 1,000$ out of your pocket”.

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