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Life, Death, and the iPad: Cultural Symbols and Steve Jobs
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/6572/111811_CACMpg24_Life-Death-iPad2.large.jpg?1321557454&1321557453 "paper iPad with paper travel case")
In traditional Chinese culture, people burn paper offerings for their ancestors. In a funerary goods store in Singapore, Genevieve Bell bought the last two paper iPads — complete with paper travel cases and finger smudges — popular items for the hereafter.
Credit: Genevieve Bell
In the days that followed Steve Jobs' death, he was frequently compared to Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. But Jobs was creating experiences, not technologies or products. He, and Apple, were creating a new symbolic register in which we all might participate.
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