REVIEW OF 'JUST FOR FUN'

Linus Torvalds and I have the same age; he was born in December 1969. Although we're both Europeans, our two hometowns are at a distance of 3,446 km. I read his biography 'Just for fun - The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary' published by HarperBusiness this past July.
The book's vendors describe him as a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. (...) Today Torvalds is an international folk hero, a man with a revolutionary vision, who challenges our values and may change our world.
What has Linus Torvalds done in the last 20 years so that we can call him a hero?
He built a computer Operating System which is called Linux. It is composed of some lines of code written by Linus initially to connect his home computer to the University of Helsinki's mainframe in order to be able to read the news, at a time in which the WWW was not as widespread as it is today.
From this first project, which was a terminal emulator with only one or two programs, Linus eventually developed a bona fide and affordable Operating System which years later would go on to fight against the largest tech companies.
Other than his success from an economic point of view, which is to be expected from such an inventor, the book informs its readers of some important facts regarding Linus' upbringing and education.
The book opens with the enunciation of Linus' theory of the Meaning of life which, in plain words, is a progression of three factors: survival, sociality, and entertainment.
In the book, published in 2001, Linus Torvalds had foretold that: ''Nobody even wants a computer'' - he wrote. ''What everybody wants is this magical toy that can be used to browse the Web, write term papers, play games, balance the checkbook, and so on.''
Linus also explained: ''What really matters when you talk about technology is what people want''.
So Linus had foreseen that when we play games or browse the Web we no longer want to stay seated in front of a screen only at the office or at home, rather, we want to do these things everywhere and the technology has to support this consumer's desire.
Could we ever live without these devices (most of which use Linux and/or Android)? Could we forgo the benefits that we are used to having?