Thomas Streeter is the author of The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (NYU Press, 2011).
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Why, Really, Do We Love Steve Jobs?
It's the old appealing story of a man who pursued his inner passion and got rich.
Thomas Streeter