Ben Franklin once said “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”

Everyone in today’s generation knows Steve Jobs and everybody knows Whitney Houston, but whom will people remember longer? Both are extremely valuable people to today’s generation, both lived lives that most people would be envious of but lets take a look at which I think will be remembered longer.

Whitney Houston:

For a decade and a half, she ruled the charts: 170 million albums sold, including seven back-to-back multi-platinum ones.

Numerous No. 1 hits, including the biggest-selling U.S. single of all time, “I Will Always Love You.”

Emmys, Grammys, Billboard Music awards. Dozens of them.

Steve Jobs:

Steve Jobs is undeniably an extraordinary man by any standard. He has left his mark on no less than five industries: personal computers with Apple II and Macintosh, music with iPod and iTunes, phone with iPhone, and animation with Pixar. He was built a computer empire and became a multi-millionaire in a few years, widely acknowledged as one the world’s most eminent business executives and an unrivaled visionary. He has changed millions of lives by making technology easy-to-use, exciting and beautiful.

The easy way to handle this would be to just google fight it out and get

If you can’t tell the website compares how many pages are located for Whitney Houston compared to Steve Jobs. So I wanted to compare this to other search websites. I tried Youtube where Steve Jobs got 56,300 and Whitney got 83,500.

When I think about which celebrity had a more fundamental part in improving society it has to go to Steve Jobs, but that isn’t whom people remember. Thomas Edison had to invent something people use constantly for his name to be remembered. And even if Apple is around forever, the people surviving today will only remember the name of the first CEO. The closest person I can compare him to is Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. He is the only inventor who I can really think of who changed the game. Whitney Houston will always be played, and I compare her to Aretha Franklin, why because like a few of you know she is her godmother and they both will play music that will be remembered forever. The huge deciding factor is who people tend to remember, and the majority of people don’t pay attention to who invented what especially with the snowball effect of technology know a days. I would bet maybe two people in my computer science class could tell you the CEO of Samsung, Google, or Sony, but I bet 10 people in the class could sing you a song from Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, or Patti Labelle. It is amazing what you have to accomplish to be remembered.

By the way, Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the television.