Lose . Theres nothing. [ticking] its so much more intimate than a laptop. When steve jobs unveiled the ipad, there was no way he could have predicted what it would mean to people with autism. It turns out it may be the perfect device to help unlock the isolation many with autism feel by helping them communicate in ways that they couldnt before. I want a drink. I always had said when he was younger, it was like he was a computer and i was computer illiterate, and i didnt know how to press the right keys. Sorry. That was the hard part is, you knew there was more in there, and you didnt know how to get it out. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im bob simon. In this edition, we look at the life of tech titan steve jobs, the cofounder of apple, and we also examine the unexpected impact that one of his inventions, the ipad, is having on children and parents living with autism. In 2004, jobs asked Walter Isaacson, a former editor of time magazine, if he would write his biography. Isaacson though
All of them. You want the world to know about it by putting your name on all the things you do support. I dont keep it a secret, thats for sure. [ticking] when sony, the Electronics Giant thats the epitome of japan incorporated, lost its cutting edge, it did something radical. It hired a westerner, sir Howard Stringer, as its new ceo. Sony is no longer the coolest. This is the coolest. You can take ipod and beat us over the head with it, but its only one product, and we have 1,000 products. Still, talk about a tough job. He has to turn sony around in a culture thats not always easy for a westerner to understand. Sorry. Thats all right. Were you lost in translation too . Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im steve kroft. In this edition, we talk with a trio of business moguls, carl icahn, eli broad, and sir Howard Stringer. We begin with carl icahn. It takes a certain breed of stock market investor to thrive in queasy times, and icahn is one of that breed. He has a knack of turning someone
By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Good evening. Founding two fortune 500 companies. The Insurance Company sunamerica along the way he amass ad considerable fortune. That focus philanthropy on reforming Public Education through Charter Schools and contemporary art accessible to all. Next year Broad Contemporary Art Museum will open its doors right next to disney in Downtown Los Angeles. Admission will be free. Eli, it is an honor to have you on this program. Delighted to be here. I want to start this conversation, if i might, going ever by going into your text that you wrote a few years ago. The art of being unreasonable. I want to go to page 60 here. It really does kind of set the framework for a conversation that we want on make part master class about some of the lessons you learned. I want to walk through five, six lessons you learned along the way in this buffalo billiant career of yours as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. You say a word abou
By contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Good evening. Founding two fortune 500 companies. The Insurance Company sunamerica along the way he amass ad considerable fortune. That focus philanthropy on reforming Public Education through Charter Schools and contemporary art accessible to all. Next year Broad Contemporary Art Museum will open its doors right next to disney in Downtown Los Angeles. Admission will be free. Eli, it is an honor to have you on this program. Delighted to be here. I want to start this conversation, if i might, going ever by going into your text that you wrote a few years ago. The art of being unreasonable. I want to go to page 60 here. It really does kind of set the framework for a conversation that we want on make part master class about some of the lessons you learned. I want to walk through five, six lessons you learned along the way in this buffalo billiant career of yours as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. You say a word abou