School to be named after Steve Jobs?

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(FILES) In this dated June 11, 2007 filed photo shows Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs gives the keynote address on the opening day of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 (WWDC 07) at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, California.

By Athima Chansanchai

After 50 years of being named after one of the Soviet Union's founding fathers, one school might change its name to another kind of founding father, of innovative technology: Steve Jobs.

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but who would have guessed that a technical secondary school in Bulgaria would be the site of what could possibly be the first school named after Jobs? The school, located in the country's second biggest city, Plovdiv, has carried the name of?Vladimir Ilyich Lenin until school officials decided they wanted a change. A decision hasn't been made yet, and a Bulgarian scientist may yet take the glory, reported Time magazine's Techland.

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870 - 1924), Russian revolutionary, making a speech in Moscow.

It is interesting to see the parallels between Jobs and Lenin in some ways, even though Lenin would have probably bristled at the idea of being compared to such a capitalist, however modestly Jobs lived.

Jobs, who died Oct. 5 at age 56, reigned over Apple and helped propel it to be the world's most valuable tech company, with a value of $351 billion, making it a formidable superpower among tech giants.?

Lenin, who died in 1924 at age 53, overturned Russia's czars with the Bolsheviks, and formed the foundation of what would become the USSR. While the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union has lessened the impact of the power of the countries when they were unified under Kremlin rule, for much of the last century, post World War II, it was one of two superpowers along with the U.S.

Jobs freed consumers from lugging around CDs and CD players, giving music to the masses through iPods. Later, he gave the world iPhones and iPads, furthering the freedom to read, listen and communicate anywhere.

Lenin saw the value of communicating with the masses too, and recorded several speeches in 1919 on what was then considered cutting-edge technology: gramophone records. For a few years, his name also graced what is now the Ukraine's National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute (KhPI). ?

We're left wondering: When?will the first U.S. school consider renaming (or naming)?itself after Jobs?

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