Discipline like the arts and sciences, the way ben franklin did, the way ada lovelace did and Albert Einstein. We talk about innovations so often, its almost drained of its meaning, and ive always liked to write about real people who are in a situation whether it whether it be after world war ii when you have to create a whole new world order like the world bank and the Marshall Plan or steve jobs who says okay we are now in a digital revolution and have to make it personal. These are people who are able to think different and outofthebox. So i want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. Host one of the themes in all of your her books seems to be the connection to spirituality. Everybody had written about the leaves believes whatever they did was part of something larger than themselves. I remember sitting with steve jobs at the end of his life and i asked him why did you do what you do, what was the meaning and he said life is like a river. You get to pick things out of
Booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guest and viewers. Facebook booktv. It is booktv at book expo america. Publishings annual trade show. More from the set at the convention center. You have a new book coming out. What it is about . It is about the innovators. The word is becoming devoid of meaning because it is overused. I wanted to look at how real people invented the computer and internet and how innovation happened in the digital age. It was something from steve jobs and before that bill gates to say who made that type of person and how did they end up being successful. So it isnt about Singular People but collaboration. One of the things i discovered in doing the book is real innovation comes from great teams and not just great leaders what surprised you . The importance of connecting the arts to technology. The importance of what steve jobs always talked about, the liberal arts and engineering int int int int int intersecting. It started with person who loved p
In the United States are considered a minor until you turn 18, but being that status is a very different kind of thing in places like el salvador and other places than the United States. But we know that a lot of gang members in the world, using these not only to get to their family members and they are using these hubs where 47 of the minors are young men and they are using them to recruit more people for their games because of the perfect breeding ground and their parents arent around and they can offer a sense of community and livelihood. We are talking about very violent people showing that they engage in murder and torture before entering the United States. In terms of the Border Control not being able to set them out, between minors and juveniles, you lose your job as you process these people through and then they turn them over to i. C. E. And then i. C. E. Do something with them. Whether they deliver them to their parent or not, that happens. All i know is that they are being s
Walter isaacson, inputting the innovators together, you crowdsourced this book a little bit. The internet was invented in order to allow people to collaborate on the research. That was the original done by the Defense Department and the internet which is if you want people in Different Resource Centers far away to help you save your work, we will have this internet. So we can share things. So i thought one night, well, why dont i see if it still works that way . So i took some of chapters in my book, early drafts of them, very early drafts and put them online for everybody to read. Comment, tell me. Oddly enough some of the people, i got 18,000 comments in the first week for one chapter. And a lot of it led to some good stuff, like Stewart Brand, one of the great, wonderful, colorful characters in this book. Stuart graham was a who invented the catalog, the well which is one of the early online services. He invented, he helped do the mother of all demos. He was at the gracious so may d
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