I was sitting at my Mac computer at work Wednesday when I learned of the passing of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who died at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
At almost the same time, two of my friends messaged me on Facebook, simply stating, “Steve Jobs died.”
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