But there is one parallel between the life of a media buyer in the 1960s and today: Media buyers today still mostly measure success via simple exposure.
Which means that our parallel importer might be taking necessary, life saving even, drugs away from someone in that low priced market to sell them in the high priced one.
The Isaacson book, and other accounts of Jobs' life and work, have reinforced parallel images of the late executive as an ingenious innovator but a demanding, unpleasant person.
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 and its most high-profile creation is Second Life - in which people create and adorn avatars and that live out a parallel existence in the online space.
Maybe it was because the list came to life over a Thai dinner in York (UK) but the first suggestion is distinctly non-parallel consider buying a faster computer.