phenomenal tool. steve jobs thought that a computer should require no technical skill. he thought that it should be capable of generating artistic endeavors and not just number-crunching business things. is there anything you d like to see? we d love to have it in a book right now, you know, about this size, but that s technically impossible. steve s like, i want to make a friendly computer, a computer that comes from a different kind of place, that owes its inspiration to people who are thoughtful and creative and human and humane. this is an experimental office system of the xerox research center in palo alto, california. flowers, my anniversary. i forgot. xerox in the 1 t980s was onef the most exciting companies in america. they had a booming business. it wasn t a computer o company. but it was the palo alto research center.
they said we think it s an issue. it s an issue now if you have a passion or a hobby. i had a similar experience. thank god, steve jobs, didn t come of age in like 1987, 88 because i m sure he was squirming in his seat and i m sure he was a difficult guy to deal with. you couldn t hold me down. you couldn t hold a lot of people i know who were successful down in second, third, fourth grade. the past 25 years they have been shoving ritalin down their throats. like the helicopter overachieving parents who want their kids focused all the time on grades. it s the medical industry which tries to overpromote these drugs. it s this sense that nobody can ever have two minutes of discomfort and trying. actually just putting up with just life in general. the kids get hooked because it works for them and they get the positive reinforce of having to medicate to get through a test. as they get older they think of pills to be the solution to
why more people and, again, it s happening at college campuses today. i m very nervous about it. i have in my own world but these numbers should give everyone pause and doctors need to think twice about prescribing it. it s just instantaneous. it s instant reaction. in the piece you guys are talking about from the professor at harvard medical school says a tremendous push if a kids s behavior is thought to be, quote/unquote, abnormal not sitting quiet at their desk, a question of diagnosis as well. that is a question of diagnosis. i wonder how steven jobs, i m serious. i won how steven jobs sat in his chair in second grade? i wonder what impact, how the world would have been different if a lot of these great thinkers throughout the past, you know, several hundred years had had doctors instead of giving hem
back to the population bomb. the reality is technology has leaked us forward. how do you make sure that we as a country do the things whether it be making sure we are competitive and i won t go into my tax discussion, but we need to rebuild our tax code to be competitive with the world. the congressman is right. i think that we always end up america creates the stuff that makes the world go. we have the most freedom. people come here to make things. will this be the next steven jobs from china? i don t know. if you have a creative idea there is the ability to find capital and you are not regulated out of existence. those are the things that make us vibrant so we are always
of the brooklyn youth company, which does what? we re a theater-making compafo. we write our own original plays, we act in them, and the kids direct them, design them. we do it all. good. that s great. glenn fleishman is from seattle, washington. he is a journalist. and apple i just finished reading the book on the biography of steven jobs, and apple sent you one of the first ipods, i believe, before it was released to the public, right? yeah, it was about a month before it had come out, so i could take a look at it. and the fiing i did with it, of course, was put it in a headphone jack, a set of headphones, and broke it. [ laughs ] so you didn t get a chance to review it as it was? they were very kind. they sent me another one on loan, so i could actually take a look at it, but it was a little embarrassing. oh, i m sure it was. meredith lowmaster from quincy, massachusetts. tell me about your pet lizard. my pet lizard s name is it a gecko? no, it is not a gecko. it s a green anole