If you havent read Walter Isaacson it is a delight to read and because he connects us with devices that connect our lives. Everyone of you is carrying around something that has dozens and dozens of technological streams that have merged to get it to give us the connectivity we assume it today. Walter is the best person i know. Alter is the best person i know at explaining the connections that lead to the things that change our lives. In his new book the innovators how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution walters drinks together not just the hero stories but the stories that you wouldnt here because these things are not made by individuals. Walter does of phenomenal job explaining how the team work involved and the history is exciting and reverting. I will go back to my script for one thing i could not say better. I will quote salon. Com and say if anyone in america understands genius, it is Walter Isaacson. [applause] thank you very much, jim. Notice h
Its meaning, and ive always liked to write about real people who are in a situation whether it be averill hairman after world war ii and you have a create a new world ordinary like nato and the world bank and the Marshall Plan 0 steve jobs who says were now in a digital revolution, we have to make it personal. These are people who to use steve jobs words, were able to think different, think out of the box. I want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. Host one of them themes themes in your book seems to be a connect to spirituality. Guest everybody believed they were part of something larger than themselves. I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you realize its not how much you get to take out of the river its what you put back into the r
I remember sitting with steve jobs and i asked him why did you do what you do . And he said, life is like a river. You get to pick things out of the river, really cool things people have done, they put before you in the river, great devices or great ideas, but after a while you r great devices or great ideas but after a while you realize it is not how much you take out of the river but how much you put into the river, what you leave behind so your spirit is so manifest after you have been gone. Whether it is Robert Einstein or Benjamin Franklin or anybody else they did have a connection to something supernatural, something larger than themselves. Host from 2011 to your book and steve jobs, the opening sentence in your the 2004 got a phone call from steve jobs. Why did he call you . I had written a biography of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and his it why do you do me next . My first reaction was okay, Benjamin Franklin Albert Einstein, you . Then i realized he had been sick fig
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Love with eniac. He knew what it could do. Then it was this very wonderful thing where he taught clarie how to program it. There was a debate of who so what first, but somebody saw that they were designing the institute machine and writing code for it. But the machine was not ready. Someone said, we can rewire eniac and run programs on the eniac. They spent six weeks rewiring it and getting it to run. That was the origin of modern software. And that was such a fruitful time. So it was a mixture of their marriage, the coding. And she had no training whatsoever . She did have training. During the war, when johnny went off to england to do what, we do not know . She was left behind in princeton. Women could apply and get a wartime job. Hers was at the center for Population Research at princeton university. Her job was modeling populations of people. What would happen if you created a new state in the middle east or something . They model growth of population. That is what you needed to so